Mad Mad Mad
Tesla now has a self-driving mode called “Mad Max.”
It accelerates more aggressively and overtakes tighter. Regulators are investigating because, apparently, Silicon Valley needed reminding that roads are not beta-testing environments.
This is the problem when technology culture treats recklessness as innovation. We get:
• features named after dystopian chaos
• safety framed as an optional setting
• and human lives treated like edge cases
It is the same mindset behind “move fast and break things. Except here “things” are bodies, laws, and public trust.
Leaders should be asking:
Who asked for this?
Who benefits?
Who carries the risk when it goes wrong?
Technology is not dangerous.
Arrogance is.
My work helps organisations shift the default setting from anxious confusion to informed excitement, while building the governance and wisdom to avoid exactly this kind of headline.
If your future strategy depends on hype rather than judgement, you don’t have a strategy. You have a crash pending.
If you would like to explore this further or discuss a keynote, workshop or project, you can reach me at scott@artefactlive.com.
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