Elon Musk Addresses Tesla Pileup in Netflix’s ‘Leave 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 coronary heart of the drawback … extremely sensible automobiles.

Here’s the deal … Netflix launched this new movie referred to as ‘Leave the World Behind’ and there is a scene in there the place Model 3 Teslas drive themselves into a large pileup on a street 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 in the autos — which the principal characters have to flee — and the scene highlights Tesla’s high-tech self-driving functionality … however in a nightmare situation.

What makes this second in the film further eerie is the undeniable fact that it is all white Model 3s which might be doing this … seemingly at 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 those who his Teslas would fare effectively in a doomsday state of affairs 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 terror in 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 having the ability to begin is NOT the drawback right here. Rather, it is the truth they will freaking drive on their very own!

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

Still, it appears 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, in basic, does not focus totally on this challenge … however it’s actually a spotlight. Shout-out Julia Roberts‘ driving!