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

Elon Musk is making an attempt 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 sensible automobiles.

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

Like we mentioned, it is freaky as a result of the automobiles actually crash themselves right into a endless accident with no person within the autos — which the principle characters have to flee — and the scene highlights Tesla’s high-tech self-driving functionality … however in a nightmare state of affairs.

What makes this second within the film further 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 automobiles to their doom.

Elon responded to a spliced model of this scene on Netflix’s Twitter/X account, and he seemingly tried reassuring people who his Teslas would fare nicely in a doomsday state of affairs just like the one depicted on digital camera. He wrote, “Teslas can cost from photo voltaic panels even when the world goes totally Mad Max and there’s no extra gasoline!”

Like we mentioned, he is *attempting* 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 with the ability to begin is NOT the issue right here. Slightly, it is the actual fact they’ll freaking drive on their very own!

There’ve been stories of Teslas which have gotten into some dangerous wrecks (allegedly in autopilot mode) — but it surely’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 automobiles” and turned it right into a horror film, of kinds … at the very least for this 1 scene, anyway. The flick, typically, does not focus solely on this concern … however it’s actually a spotlight. Shout-out Julia Roberts‘ driving!