Shadowing Practice: Roadster Event - Learn English Speaking with Video
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We'll be right back.
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Welcome everybody!
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Hey everyone, welcome to McGregor.
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I'm Franz, this is Lars.
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We hope you enjoyed our little pre -show Raptor static fire over there.
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We are here at SpaceX's rocket test and development center in McGregor, Texas.
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It's 4 ,000 acres.
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Thank you for having us.
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Thank you for hosting us, SpaceX.
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Thank Thank you for everyone's here and thank you for everyone watching online.
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We thought we'd just, you know, we're 20 years from when Elon first introduced the Roadster to the world.
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And it was really a proof of concept that proved EVs were viable product, fun to drive, could go the distance.
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They were real cars.
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And look at how far we've come in those 20 years.
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Yeah, I mean, to be honest, the Roadster is the reason I came to Tesla.
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And I came here and we had a master plan to build an EV
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that proved that we could do everything that Franz just said.
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And to make a cheaper EV that people could afford with Model S.
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And then we built
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Model 3 and Model Y.
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But, you know, the last time we had Roadster and SpaceX together, we put Elon's into orbit.
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And you can see there.
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And, you know, Starman is still out there somewhere amazing feet.
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But I think we should get Elon out here to talk more about that.
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What do you think?
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Elon, come on out.
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Elon, come on out.
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Are you going to see some crazy stuff tonight?
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Like, we need an audience to prove that it's not AI or SI.
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So you guys can tell people you saw it with your eyes.
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Because what you see with your eyes you will not believe.
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Yeah.
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But you're going to see the results of what happens
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when you have a collaboration with the world's best car company and the world's best rocket company.
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And this is the culmination of incredible work by Tesla
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and SpaceX engineers working closely together to make something
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that you haven't seen in any movie that's better than any James Bond car,
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better than, well, I don't know, I've never seen anything like this.
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So, you know, when I suggested this to the team, I thought, am I crazy?
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Maybe a little bit.
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Maybe a little bit.
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Exactly.
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Am I crazy?
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Not at all.
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100 % sane.
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So, and then things kind of built upon themselves and we're like,
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well, maybe we could do a little more of this and a little more of that.
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And I think what you'll see here, by the way, success is not guaranteed.
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So I want to, you know, I mean that.
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It'll probably work.
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But if it doesn't work, we're at a safe distance.
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Yes.
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Yes.
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And excitement is 100 % guaranteed. So...
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Yes, let's fucking go. So, let's see...
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The future is autonomous, Elon, right?
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Yes.
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But this is not an autonomous car.
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It is the last...
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Well, it is technically autonomous for this demo to make sure we don't kill anyone.
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Correct.
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So, just in case.
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But this will actually be long term the only manually driven car that Tesla makes.
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You're gonna have some fun sometimes.
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Yeah.
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And so if you're gonna have only one manually driven car, let's take it to the limits and way past the limits.
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Elon had this crazy idea.
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I don't know where it came from, it'd be great to hear, but we said.
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I think an insane FIBA dream.
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Guys we got 10 seconds
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Should we count it down?
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4, 3, 2, 1
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I don't know.
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The End
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I'm sorry.
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Well, it worked.
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Flying cars are real.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, well, a friend of mine, Peter Thiel, once said that the future promised us flying cars, but instead we got 140 characters.
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Well, not anymore.
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Exactly.
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That's not the last thing you'll see, by the way.
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To do that, we have a fan suction system on the bottom of the car that can pull up to two
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Gs in order to make the car go upside down.
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And then we borrowed some technology from SpaceX to do the rest.
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Yeah.
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I mean, this car really sucks.
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This car could suck the chrome off a trailer hitch.
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It could suck a tennis ball through a hose pipe.
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So and it could stick upside down.
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Now you might say like how often do you want to stick upside down in a car?
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Maybe not that often.
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But it actually has this, an actual benefit on the track
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or just driving where the down force of the car means
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you can corner incredibly well like you can corner like it looks like you're breaking physics
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because the car sticks to the ground so hard.
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So acceleration, cornering, it's going to crush every track record that has ever existed. So...
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Yeah, I think the last time we put Roadster with SpaceX, we had Starman in it and maybe we should check,
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did we put anyone in the car phones?
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Yeah, I think Starman's going to make an appearance.
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I think he went for a little ride.
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Any minute now.
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Yeah. So, yeah.
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Here he is.
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No?
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Come on.
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Anticipation.
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Hey, buddy.
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He's being coy.
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Just to be clear, that is not a real human.
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So the car has obviously attitude control thrusters and main thrusters in the rear.
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So it can basically fly like a rocket.
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And it can do rolls, it can do like crazy gymnastics.
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Whatever you want really.
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Now I should say that this is not necessarily a safety optimized car.
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Okay.
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But it is, it takes the fun meter to 11 out of 10.
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But speaking of fun meter, you want to try one?
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Let's try something else.
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Yeah.
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I mean that was just a little flight.
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Let's do a longer flight.
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Alright.
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Let's see what we got set up.
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The End I mean, I've seen a lot of things, but I've never seen that before.
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Tony Hawk would be proud.
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We call that the kickflip.
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Yeah.
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I think we could have cleared more than our whole fleet.
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Yeah, we can go further.
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Like, this will be an actual car that's on the roads.
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You know, I'm not sure it's necessarily legal in all jurisdictions, but like there will be such a car that someone can own.
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So it's gonna be pretty wild that you can have a rocket car.
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Yeah, to do that, we had the rockets we borrowed from SpaceX technology.
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You talked about the carbon overlay pressure vessels.
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I just wanna tell everyone, because I'm a spec guy, there's two of them in the car.
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They are a total of 600 liters.
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There's about 250 kilos of air.
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And we have 10 nozzles to do all that work.
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And it's using an advanced ultra high pressure air tank.
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So the car can recharge its air tank.
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So it's not like you need special propellant or anything like that.
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It literally is just going to puff itself up and be able to do these maneuvers whenever you'd like.
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But why don't we show them the car?
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So since we knew the car was going to fly, Since we knew Roadster was going to fly, we looked for some inspiration about flying,
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and we thought we would lean into the most badass stuff out there, SR -71, Cars That Transform.
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And that led us to the new Roadster.
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So now you get an up -close look at the new Roadster.
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Thank you Andy and Lamar, those guys are kicking ass on our engineering team making this all happen.
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You can see the car, very clean, it's a nice clean aesthetic.
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Like I said, we leaned into a little bit of some of the aerospace aesthetics.
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It's a two -seater, I'll open it up.
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As you can see, two guys got out of it.
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We leaned into lightweight as well, so the seats are molded into the chassis.
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It's a steer by wire system.
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So we have a steer by wire yoke, steer by wire brakes, steer by wire throttle.
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And as we get to the rear of the car, this is where a lot of the action, you can't see it but online,
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in the diffuser area is where the thrusters are, the fans are, and this is kind of the business end of the car.
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But the car can transform because we wanted to make a pretty car, but also a car that could deliver amazing downforce.
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So we'll turn the fans off for you.
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Sorry, it's a little loud here.
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But as Elon said, this car is meant to be the best driver's car.
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And to do that, we wanted to.. break the laws of physics.
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We put the fan sucker system on there to give us traction to be able to corner at greater than two
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Gs and accelerate with all the traction that goes beyond the tires, which is typically one of the 1 .26 Gs.
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You see here, we have two modes.
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We have a high downforce mode, and what the car is in now is a low drag mode.
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And the fan system also has two modes.
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It can suck the car down at low speed to give us traction
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when we need it and at high speed we'll open up the front
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and rear parts of the suction system to create even more flow underneath the car yeah
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so if the the rear wing has a variable pitch
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so it can adjust the downforce dynamically
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and we'll do it automatically based on on what it calculates you need
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when you're going around the track but elon how fast did you want
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Do you want to go to zero to 60?
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I can't remember.
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Well, you've got to break one second.
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Obviously.
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I tested this the other day.
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Can we put it up, guys?
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Can we put the test up?
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Like, this goes fast.
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We wanted...
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All right, one second, right?
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You said one second.
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Well, I said less than one second.
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Oh, shit.
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Hey, guys, we have a car out there, right?
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Don't we have a car out there?
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Can you put it on the max?
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Let's try and be one second.
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Do we have a time?
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What was the time, guys?
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We didn't have a whole lot of room out on the pad, so we had to cut it short, but do we have a live time?
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I'm waiting for it.
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Well, while we're getting to live time, you know, I will say this.
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Elon mentioned the rocket thrusters.
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You can see the thrust is exiting the back of the four thrusters faster than the speed of sound.
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So you see the mock diamonds.
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It actually creates over 80 kilonewtons of thrust.
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Yeah, I mean there's that there are cars no, and then there's one car that has mock diamonds.
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I think we broke the system
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We didn't do it in a point one seven seconds
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Yeah, okay, that's a yeah, that point one seconds.
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I think we're destroy the human if we did that
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Ah, there you go.
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There you go point a point a one second
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We'll do it and we anticipate being able to do better than that.
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I like the Newton's formula F equals MA as A equals F over M.
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So as you increase force and decrease mass you get more acceleration.
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So the production car will actually do better than that.
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So we'll just ride the limit of don't detach the retina of the human in the car. So, yeah.
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Well, it is the world's quickest production car of zero to 60.
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It'll do a half a mile in the time that other cars can do a quarter mile.
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And I think that's really what we wanted to say today.
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What else we got?
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Anything else?
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No, I mean...
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Tough speed, right?
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Oh, yeah, yeah, tough speed, of course.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Depends on your street, but it'll be a viable car.
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And yeah, so we're going to have actually a follow on demo that's... Or two. Or two. Or four.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Multiples.
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So I don't know if this is possible or not, but...
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Some people may know about Evil Knievel's attempt to jump the Snake River Canyon.
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Let's give it another shot.
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And we thought this was crazy.
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Yeah, man, that's going to look nuts.
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We're going to have to go pretty fast to do that.
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Like, really fast.
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We're going to need a running start.
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Yeah, we're going to run a start.
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Sorry.
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But yeah, the car can go over 230 miles per hour.
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Hopefully we can get even faster.
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Definitely much faster than that.
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Yeah.
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How fast?
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Well, I think you gotta go at least, you gotta crack halfway to the speed of sound, I think.
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Okay.
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Yeah.
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Mach 0 .5, maybe a little higher.
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All right, challenge on.
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Challenge accepted, sir.
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Yes.
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Yes, where we're going you don't need tires.
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So today marks the day that we build the first world's best flying car and the last best driver's car.
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When do you want to get it to customers?
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We entered production in 2028, actually.
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Actually, for real.
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Anything left in your bag?
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I think we might have one more little thing.
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Should we do it?
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Yeah, yeah, sure.
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Okay, let's do the last thing.
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The End so so
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This speaking lesson is built on the video “Roadster Event”. This video has 259 sentences and 2215 words to shadow. The speech runs for 22:46. The speaker talks slowly, about 97 words per minute, so there is time to copy every sound. 85% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start.
Key vocabulary in this video
15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| rocket noun | /ˈɹɑk.ɪt/ | A cylindrical projectile that can be fired to a great height through combustion, (specifically) a type of firework of this form, typically exploding with light… |
| wire noun | /ˈwaɪɚ/ | Metal formed into a thin, even thread, now usually by being drawn through a hole in a steel die. |
| suck verb | /sʌk/ | To use the mouth and lips to pull in (a liquid, especially milk from the breast). |
| steer verb | /stɪɹ/ | To guide the course of a vessel, vehicle, aircraft etc. (by means of a device such as a rudder, paddle, or steering wheel). |
| lean verb | /ˈliːn/ | To incline, deviate, or bend, from a vertical position; to be in a position thus inclining or deviating. |
| upside noun | /ˈʌpˌsaɪd/ | The highest or uppermost side or portion of something. |
| autonomous adjective | /ɔˈtɑnəməs/ | Governing itself independently. |
| traction noun | /ˈtɹæk.ʃən/ | The act of pulling something along a surface using motive power. |
| necessarily adverb | /ˌnɛs.əˈsɛɹ.ə.li/ | Inevitably; of necessity. |
| guarantee noun | /ˌɡæɹ.ənˈtiː/ | Anything that assures a certain outcome. |
| diamond noun | /ˈdaɪ.ə.mənd/ | A glimmering glass-like mineral that is an allotrope of carbon in which each atom is surrounded by four others in the form of a tetrahedron. |
| physics noun | /ˈfɪz.ɪks/ | The branch of science concerned with the study of the properties and interactions of space, time, matter and energy. |
| demo noun | /ˈdɛm.oʊ/ | A demonstration or visual explanation. |
| transform verb | /tɹænsˈfɔɹm/ | To change greatly the appearance or form of. |
| tire verb | /ˈtaɪ̯ɚ/ | To become sleepy or weary. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| get out of verb | To leave, exit or escape from; to become free of. | |
| go around verb | To move or spread from person to person. | |
| go over verb | To look at carefully; to scrutinize; to analyze. | |
| open up verb | To open. | |
| set up verb | /ˌsɛt ˈʌp/ | To make ready for use. |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- Are you going to see some crazy stuff tonight?
- Should we count it down?
- Can we put it up, guys?
- Can we put the test up?
- Don't we have a car out there?
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | we've come · haven't seen · I've never seen |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | is not guaranteed · are molded · is meant |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 61 contractions and reduced forms, such as we're, don't, we'll. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “th” sounds: thrust /θɹʌst/, underneath /ˌʌndɚˈniθ/, aesthetic /ɛsˈθɛ.tɪk/, aesthetics /ɛsˈθɛt.ɪks/, thruster /ˈθɹʌ.stɚ/
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: traction /ˈtɹæk.ʃən/, acceleration /əkˌsɛl.əˈɹeɪ.ʃən/, inspiration /ˌɪn.spɪˈɹeɪ.ʃən/, collaboration /kəˌlæbəˈɹeɪʃən/, crush /kɹʌʃ/
- Long words — get the stress right: autonomous /ɔˈtɑnəməs/, necessarily /ˌnɛs.əˈsɛɹ.ə.li/, acceleration /əkˌsɛl.əˈɹeɪ.ʃən/, manually /ˈmænj(u)əliː/, inspiration /ˌɪn.spɪˈɹeɪ.ʃən/
How to practise with this video
- Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
- Shadow it sentence by sentence at normal speed, repeating each one until your rhythm matches the speaker.
- Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like rocket, wire, suck.
What is the Shadowing Technique?
Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.