Matt Wolfe calls Tesla's airborne Roadster "NOT AI"

The AI commentator's unusually fast-moving Short swaps image generators for a car launching over a semi-truck.

Channel: Matt Wolfe Story of October 17, 2026Trari Newsroom

Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 153,748 views a day, 33 times a normal first day on this channel (4,712).

This Tesla Actually Flies (NOT AI)

A curved ramp sends the Roadster upside down before it lands back on its wheels. Then come the thrusters, visible exhaust plumes and a leap over parked vehicles, including a semi-truck. Matt Wolfe's reaction is less a technical breakdown than a moment of automotive temptation.

"I have literally never seen a demo like this before, but I kind of want one," he says.

His Short, "This Tesla Actually Flies (NOT AI)," reached roughly 153,000 views in its first day, more than thirty times his usual Shorts start. For a creator whose regular subjects include image editing, coding tests and AI models, the insistence that this spectacle is not generated is a particularly fitting hook.

The comments turn the demonstration into a pop-culture casting session. Viewers invoke Speed Racer, Batman and Back to the Future, while one imagines the awkward conversation with an insurance company after landing on something unexpected. Others raise less cinematic questions about the physical jolt of those maneuvers and whether the car will reach production.

Wolfe hasn't abandoned his usual beat. His accompanying upload, "AI News: 6 New Models & A Nano Banana Killer," also made an unusually strong start, returning to image-editing demonstrations and model tests. The Roadster clip is the brief detour: Wolfe at the microphone, watching a car do something that looks more at home in the worlds his viewers keep naming.

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The numbers

The Roadster Short drew far more views than Wolfe's usual first day for that format, along with a much busier comment section.

the video's first day

usual first day here

4,712

this video

153,748

subscribers

1,020,000

no significant change in the last 7 days

total views

81,663,801

views per day

74,098

typical day: 77,915

the video

views

152,981

likes

2,358

comments

550

days online

1

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

Teacher's Tech

1,190,000

Low Level

1,170,000

Dave's Garage

1,150,000

Nate Herk | AI Automation

1,070,000

Matt Wolfe

1,020,000

Two Bit da Vinci

816,000

As of October 17, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.