If you thought that was the end of the controversy that’s not really a controversy, think again. “Leave the World Behind” caused yet more online nitpickery, this time over a scene that involves Amanda and Clay discovering a road crammed with unmanned Teslas. In the sequence, the driverless cars have seemingly been hacked to drive to certain destinations and crash into each other, creating car-made roadblocks.
Sadly, the point of the scene seemed to escape Tesla founder and Twitter/X owner Elon Musk, who posted on his platform that, “Teslas can charge from solar panels even if the world goes fully ‘Mad Max’ and there is no more gasoline!” Naturally, as pointed out by The Independent, users of the platform were quick to jump on this error, suggesting that Musk should actually watch the film before commenting on it.
None of which is all that important in the grand scheme of things, but that didn’t stop the Daily Mail running a headline about how “Netflix users mercilessly mock ‘triggered’ Elon Musk for whining about Tesla pile-up scene.” In reality, you can scroll the replies to Musk’s post and it’s mostly Tesla bros commending the CEO for his products/and or brave response to a streaming movie. If nothing else, then, perhaps Musk’s post has given the makers of the upcoming “Mad Max” prequel/spin-off “Furiosa” some ideas. That, and it’s actually made the case for the collapse of society not being all that bad a prospect if it means the end of Twitter.