In the wake of multiple Tesla autopilot accidents—maybe more than we know of—the flim-flam futurist behind the electric car company and other science-fictional projects SpaceX and OpenAI teased a new “Master Plan” on Twitter.
Working on Top Secret Tesla Masterplan, Part 2. Hoping to publish later this week.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 10, 2016
The tweet was a smart way to rebound from the fatal accident(s) and from a dubious merger with another Musk venture, SolarCity, the combined effect of which tanked Tesla’s stock. It’s also exactly what a supervillain would say.
But all hopes that Musk might go full Kanye were dashed when the news media remembered his original “master plan” from 2006, which foretold an affordable Tesla: The Tesla 3, the most middling model yet, debuted in April of this year after many thousands of Tesla fans had paid $130 million to reserve theirs, sight unseen. Okay, so, what’s next?
Musk’s “biggest fan on Wall Street,” Morgan Stanley analyst Adam Jonas, says the only logical next step is for Tesla’s self-driving electric cars to take over public transportation. And if the autopilot feature is as potentially fatal as recent tragedies suggest, couldn’t this be a “master plan” to wipe out the tech-obsessed, zombified underclasses?!
Remember: This is the same Elon who came up with OpenAI—a plan to publish the platform for programming a supreme-leaderly super intelligence so that any Tom, Dick or Doctor Doom can make us all martyrs to the inevitable future. Gulp.
