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I appreciate the utter uselessness of the car effort. Musk is trolling the universe.

[Moonman62]

Musk got tremendous and valuable publicity for his companies by launching his car instead of a block of concrete on the demonstration mission.

Look at this article and thread for instance. People are still talking about it.

[jmcenanly]

If you can put a car into a Solar orbit that goes beyond Mars, you can easily put a semi-trailer sized payload into Clarke orbit. That may have been the selling point.