Elon Musk Addresses Tesla Pileup in Netflix’s ‘Depart the World Behind’

Elon Musk is trying to tamp down any fears about Tesla automobiles {that a} new Netflix film has stoked — however he is not actually addressing the center of the issue … extremely good automobiles.

This is the deal … Netflix launched this new movie referred to as ‘Depart the World Behind’ and there is a scene in there the place Mannequin 3 Teslas drive themselves into an enormous pileup on a highway main again to NYC … this amid a mass energy outage/potential cyber assault on Earth.

Like we stated, it is freaky as a result of the automobiles actually crash themselves right into a endless accident with no one within the autos — 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 are doing this … seemingly on the whim of hackers who’re sending the automobiles to their doom.

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 nicely in a doomsday scenario just like the one depicted on digital camera. He wrote, “Teslas can charge from solar panels even if the world goes fully Mad Max and there is no more gasoline!”

Like we stated, 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 automobile not having the ability to begin is NOT the issue right here. Relatively, it is the actual fact they will freaking drive on their very own!

There’ve been reports of Teslas which have gotten into some bad wrecks (allegedly in autopilot mode) — however it’s unclear if the self-driving function had something to do with the trigger.

Nonetheless, it appears to be like like Netflix capitalized on these fears of “too-smart cars” and turned it right into a horror film, of types … at the very least for this 1 scene, anyway. The flick, generally, would not focus fully on this problem … however it’s actually a spotlight. Shout-out Julia Roberts‘ driving!