Elon Musk on Tesla Roadster: ‘don’t buy’ if you want safety

Just weeks after appearing on Joe Rogan’s podcast and making bizarre claims about the Tesla Roadster, Elon Musk is at it again. This time he’s telling podcast listeners, and potential Tesla Roadster customers, not to buy the Roadster if they care about safety first.

“Safety is not the prime … is not the main goal,” Musk said, speaking about the Roadster on an episode of the tech podcast Moonshots with Peter Diamandis.

“If safety is your number one goal, don’t buy the Roadster,” Musk repeated, insisting that safety is not the goal of people who buy Ferraris and other sports cars.

Musk then clarified his comments, comparing it to the safety prioritization for consumers looking to buy a Ferrari or other sports car.

“We’ll aspire not to kill anyone in this car,” Musk added. “It’ll be the best of the last of the human-driven cars. The best of the last.”

Regardless of Musk’s multiple failed predictions about self-driving cars, then, he still claims the Roadster will be “the best of the last cars” that are not fully autonomous.

Last November on The Joe Rogan Experience, Musk strongly hinted that the long-awaited Roadster – a vehicle that Tesla started taking preorders for back in 2017 and has still not been released – might be able to fly.

Musk also promised that a Roadster demo would drop before the end of 2025. Needless to say, that didn’t happen.

As TechRadar points out, Musk’s previous outlandish claims about the Roadster include that it would be equipped with a thruster that pushes that car from zero to 60mph in less than one second, 10,000Nm of torque, and a high speed of over 250mph. 

Musk now says that Tesla will officially unveil the Roadster on April 1, 2026 — which is, of course, April Fools Day. So does he mean it, or is this yet another attempt at a joke? Your guess is as good as ours.

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