The Verge follows Tesla's flying demo with a delivery question
Roadster spectacle shares the upload slate with a Vergecast debate about Apple's HomeView apps.
Why this story? The channel's weekly summary: what went up this week, what is drawing views now, and where the channel stands among similar channels.
Will Tesla's new Roadster ship?
Showing a car leave the ground is one thing. Delivering it to customers is another, and The Verge made room for both sides of that distinction among its fifteen uploads this week.
"Will Tesla's new Roadster ship?" follows the Texas unveiling with a question the airborne demonstrations cannot answer. The channel's description points to almost nine years of delays, then examines the SpaceX technology behind the spectacle. That follow-up is now among the channel's strongest sources of daily views, alongside the acceleration demonstration itself.
The week's most-watched upload, "Tesla's new Roadster: 0-60mph in under 1 sec," has reached roughly 437,000 views. In the Tesla-sourced presentation footage, a white car launches down the track before presenters announce the event's acceleration result. Viewers bring the spectacle back to ordinary traffic: they ask about legality, stopping distance and what it would mean to be the car waiting behind it at a red light.
Across the channel, daily viewing is approaching twice its usual pace, while the subscriber total stayed unchanged over the week. CNET is also experiencing a pronounced viewing surge among nearby technology channels; Dave2D is having a quieter spell.
Away from the test track, "Apple's HomeView has an app problem | The Vergecast" gives David Pierce and Nilay Patel a more domestic technology puzzle. Their discussion asks whether Apple's display should simply be an iPad, and whether even the best AI model matters without good products built around it. That episode, too, is among The Verge's uploads carrying the most momentum right now.
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I would hate to be the car behind this one at the red light.
@THPD_jtSee it on YouTubeTires just holding on at this point.
@benbohannonSee it on YouTubeIs this legal
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They should have showed how it stop at that speed
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- The Verge
- Subscribers
- 3,520,000
- Channel views, last 7 days
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