el.cine's 22-second AI short lifts a car out of Manhattan traffic and into a jammed sky
el.cine's comic clip, posted five days after Tesla unveiled its thruster Roadster, gets the driver, sound, light and car right. The one weak spot is the flight, which does not match Tesla's launch demo.
Stuck in Manhattan gridlock beside a city bus, a driver presses one glowing button and her car lifts off the street on four thrusters. Then she looks up: the sky over the Chrysler Building is already jammed with flying cars. el.cine (EHuanglu on X) posted the 22-second clip as "the future of traffic jam," and it is a hilarious, wonderfully topical take on the daily commute.
The timing is half the joke. It landed five days after Tesla unveiled its new Roadster, which used rocket-style thrusters to jump over a truck at its launch event. The flight is the one thing that does not hold up: the way the car lifts off does not really match what Tesla showed.
Everything else is close to flawless. The woman behind the wheel moves like a real person, from her hands on the wheel to the tired rub of her face at the end. The audio track and the lighting both land, the shots are well chosen, and the car stays the same car from every angle. Really entertaining.
el.cine shared the full prompt for free in a reply, set up so you can swap in your own car and character from a photo.
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Source: el.cine (EHuanglu) on X, 20 Oct 2026.
