Elon Musk’s Weird Excuse for Tesla’s Tumble: We’re Not a Car Company!

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Elon Musk’s Weird Excuse for Tesla’s Tumble: We’re Not a Car Company!

Elon Musk is prone to strange asides in all aspects of his life, but Tesla’s quarterly earnings call earlier this week found him in rare form: Speaking to investors, the CEO droned on about everything from alien abductions to the Irish Republican Army, and seemed to signal his intent to appropriate self-driving cars’ on-board computers to turn a profit for the company when not being used. His ramblings are a little more understandable in context…