“Tiny buses for everyone!” says Elon Musk

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“Tiny buses for everyone!” says Elon Musk

By on Jul 21, 2016Share

Tesla has had a rough ride lately. A Tesla Model S on Autopilot slammed into a semi-truck, killing the driver and prompting an investigation from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. There’s talk that its yearned-for merger with Solar City may fall apart, and its high-flying stock has plunged 12 percent in three months.

What better time for Musk to unveil “Master Plan Part Deux,” which says, essentially, “Don’t look at right now! Look waay over there, in the amazing future!”

The plan, released on Tesla’s blog on Wednesday, is full of wondrous whizbangery. There will be cars so autonomous that they will earn money for you when you aren’t driving, battery-enhanced solar panels so beautiful that you will want to cuddle them, and tiny, autonomous buses that can be summoned at the push of a button. Oh, and an electric semi-truck that “will be really fun to operate.”

Musk wrote that he announced this Phase 2 because Phase 1 of his plan (fancy electric sports cars) is nearly complete. Based on the current state of uncertainty around Autopilot and the Solar City merger, it looks like Phase 1 still has a way to go.

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“Tiny buses for everyone!” says Elon Musk

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