Leave the World Behind (2023) Part 3 - Tesla Roadblock

After a couple days of holiday horror (which I am continuing right now) I decided to get back to Leave the World Behind, and the symbolism and predictive programming it gave us. Tonight though,  I am going to go into one of the weirder scenes, one that was quite  prophetic already,  just days after the movie premiere on Netflix.

Plot: A family vacation on Long Island is interrupted by two strangers bearing news of a blackout. As the threat grows, both families must decide how best to survive the potential crisis, all while grappling with their own place in this collapsing world.

Looking back at this movie after a few days away,  this may be one of the most ironic scenes in the movie, when they stumble upon a fleet of Tesla's blocking the road as they attempt to escape the area. In the scene, hese are all brand-new self-driving Teslas, and they drove themselves to the highway. With no drivers present, it appears that these cars were hacked and more may very well be on their way to clog the highways. Sure enough, another Tesla starts coming down the road, driving straight toward the family’s car.

Is this possible? Absolutely. Yes, it would be extremely difficult and highly unlikely,  but the scene does present a situation that could happen in a freak scenario.  At first,  I was gong to skip past this and just chalk it up to the hatred that the government appears to have with Tesla and owner Elon Musk. From the outset under President Obama and especially now under President Biden, Tesla never gets recognized the same way that the major automakers (Ford or GM) with their progress in electric vehicles. I am in no way making a political statement,  I am just pointing out an apparent fact with that, so so please don't look at this through a political lens. Now,  why did I revisit this?

In a strange twist,  just like something from a movie.  Tesla announced that it is recalling nearly all 2 million of its cars on US roads to limit the use of its Autopilot feature following a two-year probe by US safety regulators of roughly 1,000 crashes in which the feature was engaged.

Leave the World Behind was released on November 22, and this recall occurred in December 13, less than a month after the world saw this scene.  Was this just an odd coincidence? That is entirely possible,  but I don't really believe in those and think this was some of the predictive programming I mentioned above.  Would it really be out of the realm of possibility that President Obama or someone in his team got wind of the pending report by someone on the safety committee? I don't think so.  Or, would it be possible that after seeing the scene (and even Elon commenting on it on social media), the movie forced Tesla's hand? We will probably never know.  All I know is I don't believe in coincidence,  and this one is just too perfect.  Agree or disagree,  let me know.