Cyberpunk Is A Frequently Tapped Well Of Inspiration For Musk
In addition to motivating the Cybertruck’s sleekness and Musk’s personal gun-slinging, Cyberpunk 2077 also stimulates some of Musk’s even more fanciful notions. Like, when Musk was considering putting Tesla’s barely operational humanoid bot “in the driver’s seat of a [proposed Tesla] Robotaxi to meet the legal requirements of a car needing a driver,” Isaacson writes.
“Do you remember the original Blade Runner movie did something like that,” Musk prodded his team. “Also the most recent Cyberpunk game,” Musk said, likely referring to the Delamain car service which features prominently in one of the game’s best side quests.
“He liked taking the fiction out of science fiction,” Isaacson observes.
