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Tesla’s new Roadster jumped over five Tesla vehicles at a SpaceX test site in Texas, using compressed air fired through 10 cold-gas thrusters, reports said. Fans under the car held it to an upside-down ramp, Tesla said. The thruster-equipped Rocket version seats one and is not approved for public roads, Tesla says. Elon Musk said production begins in 2028.

Two-wheeler registrations in India rose 23% year-on-year in the first seven days of the festive season, outpacing passenger vehicles' 7% growth, per a Jefferies report. Truck registrations nearly doubled (101% YoY), while tractors grew 28%. The two-wheeler growth is notable despite a high base following last year's GST cuts.

Google Maps introduced a limited-time McLaren Formula 1 car avatar, allowing users to replace the familiar blue navigation arrow with orange racing car while using driving navigation. The feature celebrates Google's partnership with McLaren Racing and the United States Grand Prix events taking place in October and November 2026. Reportedly, the special avatar will be available until November 23.

Volkswagen plans to freeze salaries for its 660,000 employees worldwide until 2030, the group's works council said on Monday, citing internal information about the management's proposal. A fresh round of talks later this week will address labour costs, a company spokesperson said. The works council criticised the plan as unrealistic and warned that it would face strong resistance from employees.

Utho Cloud has opened reservations for NVIDIA B300 GPUs powered by the Blackwell Ultra architecture, inviting AI companies, research institutions and enterprises to secure dedicated computing capacity ahead of its expected deployment in February 2027 .As Indian businesses increasingly move artificial intelligence from experimentation to real-world applications, access to advanced computing.

Ex-Meta Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun hit back at Elon Musk amid their online feud over 'flying' Roadster 2. "I fart in your general direction," Musk had said after LeCun called his car "crappy". "From a high-pressure belly, your fart might propel you upward and forward...That's exactly how your car is powered: A 700-bar, 600-litre, three-second, noisy fart," LeCun replied.

Yann LeCun, Meta's former Chief AI Scientist, hit out at Musk, calling his 'flying' Tesla Roadster "crappy specific impulse". "Even assuming...50% of the car's mass is compressed air, that just gives...less than 10 seconds of useful thrust," LeCun said, adding, "Cute demo, but totally impractical. But of course, you knew that." Musk replied, saying, "I fart in your general direction."

US-based startup Alef Aeronautics released a video showing its electric flying car soaring over Tesla's Cybertruck and its first flying car, the Roadster, hours after Elon Musk debuted it. "Welcome Tesla and Musk to the flying car race! We've been here for eleven years!" the firm said. Notably, the startup had developed its first flying car prototype in 2019.

Gujarat Police posted an AI video after Elon Musk unveiled Tesla's Roadster 2, a car that can go from 0 to 60 miles/hour in one second and can fly momentarily using cold-gas thrusters. "We don't fly, we respond," the video said. It showed a police vehicle attempting a ramp stunt similar to the one Roadster did during its demonstration.

Elon Musk has unveiled Tesla Roadster 2, an electric supercar that can fly and reach 60 mph in just one second. The Roadster's proposed Rocket model uses 10 SpaceX thrusters connected to 600 litres of compressed air to lift the car. Unlike conventional rocket engines, there's no fuel burning inside the thruster to produce hot exhaust.