Elon Musk: the Tesla experience

If you have ever considered buying a Tesla, after watching Andreas Pichler's documentary, you will forget this idea forever.

Elon Musk's personality is one of the most frequently discussed topics in the media in recent years. Is there anything left to discover?

From the OFF Movement, we have denounced a paradigm in which technology does not serve human beings, but uses it so that its creators can achieve their own goals, and here is the perfect example.

Beyond toxic management and unbearable working conditions for its teams, this documentary shows how Tesla's customer is above all a data collection tool to train the software necessary for autonomous driving.

How could we allow ourselves, in such a regulated industry, to advertise a system like Autopilot, allegedly capable of driving without the intervention of a driver?

This greedy promise, bought by both Tesla's customers and investors, was responsible for at least dozens of deaths, which in some cases the company tried to hide, transferring responsibility to the driver.

"The Tesla experience" highlights a structural principle in much of Silicon Valley: the almost zero value attributed to the human being compared to a sacrosanct plan designed by an enlightened leader, to which all reality is subordinated.

What can differentiate Musk from a Zuckerberg or other technology leaders is a long-term vision, sustained for decades, and the ability to develop it step by step, methodically.

What really interests Musk is the conquest of space and every step he takes, including with Tesla, is an instrument to reach Mars, regardless of the price.

Regaining control of technology should start by stopping participating, like laboratory rats, in large-scale experiments like Tesla's.

By Diego Hidalgo