Elon Musk is making an attempt to tamp down any fears about Tesla vehicles {that a} new Netflix film has stoked — however he is not actually addressing the center of the issue … extremely sensible vehicles.
This is the deal … Netflix launched this new movie known as ‘Go away the World Behind’ and there is a scene in there the place Mannequin 3 Teslas drive themselves into an enormous pileup on a street main again to NYC … this amid a mass energy outage/doable cyber assault on Earth.
RUN JULIA ROBERTS RUNNNNN
Go away the World Behind is now on Netflix. pic.twitter.com/0C1WgAmLpf
— Netflix (@netflix) December 8, 2023
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Like we mentioned, it is freaky as a result of the vehicles actually crash themselves right into a unending accident with no person within the automobiles — which the primary characters have to flee — and the scene highlights Tesla’s high-tech self-driving functionality … however in a nightmare situation.
What makes this second within the film additional eerie is the truth that it is all white Mannequin 3s which might be doing this … seemingly on the whim of hackers who’re sending the vehicles to their doom.
Teslas can cost from photo voltaic panels even when the world goes absolutely Mad Max and there’s no extra gasoline!
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 8, 2023
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Elon responded to a spliced model of this scene on Netflix’s Twitter/X account, and he seemingly tried reassuring folks that his Teslas would fare effectively in a doomsday state of affairs just like the one depicted on digicam. He wrote, “Teslas can charge from solar panels even if the world goes fully Mad Max and there is no more gasoline!”
Like we mentioned, he is *making an attempt* to downplay the fear within the scene — however EM both did not watch the scene in full, or he hasn’t seen the entire movie but … ‘trigger the automotive not with the ability to begin is NOT the issue right here. Reasonably, it is the very fact they will freaking drive on their very own!
There’ve been reviews of Teslas which have gotten into some dangerous wrecks (allegedly in autopilot mode) — however it’s unclear if the self-driving characteristic had something to do with the trigger.
Nonetheless, it appears like Netflix capitalized on these fears of “too-smart cars” and turned it right into a horror film, of types … not less than for this 1 scene, anyway. The flick, normally, does not focus fully on this difficulty … however it’s actually a spotlight. Shout-out Julia Roberts‘ driving!
Anyway, here is Elon’s assure that Teslas would serve you effectively within the apocalypse … so get ’em whilst you can, we suppose? 😅