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.