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I Asked Claude How Tesla’s Roadster Drives Upside Down
How to make Claude explain anything with a picture, using Karpathy’s plain-English tip and HumanLayer’s show-me skill
On October 15, Tesla showed the new Roadster in Texas. It drove up a ramp that curls over until the car hangs upside down, held on at the top, then used small air thrusters to flip through the air and land.
If you saw the video, you probably wondered how a car can stay stuck upside down like that.
So I asked Claude how the new Roadster drives upside down. It got it right, but the answer ran to about 350 words, and the one idea that matters was buried halfway down.
A short, clear answer saves you time. It also makes AI mistakes much easier to spot, because each idea sits in one short sentence you can check.
Two recent tips gave me that.
- Andrej Karpathy suggests asking your AI to explain things in plain, aircraft-manual English, and he says a diagram is even better.
- show-me, a small skill from…




