Edison would have been a more appropriate name
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The cars done even use Tesla's famous electric motor design (induction motors), I believe they use switched reluctance motors. Def a smart design choice, but not on brand!
We bring Edison to the present with a Time Machine and he goes about sabotaging all the accused machines with his rival’s name so that they spontaneously combust in the street.
It weirdly historically almost fits (but not actually) - Tesla made a company then an oligarch with disregard for humans bought it & forgot to rename it Edison.
He was a eugenicist.
"The year 2100 will see eugenics universally established. In past ages, the law governing the survival of the fittest roughly weeded out the less desirable strains. Then man’s new sense of pity began to interfere with the ruthless workings of nature. As a result, we continue to keep alive and to breed the unfit. The only method compatible with our notions of civilization and the race is to prevent the breeding of the unfit by sterilization and the deliberate guidance of the mating instinct. Several European countries and a number of states of the American Union sterilize the criminal and the insane. This is not sufficient. The trend of opinion among eugenists is that we must make marriage more difficult. Certainly no one who is not a desirable parent should be permitted to produce progeny. A century from now it will no more occur to a normal person to mate with a person eugenically unfit than to marry a habitual criminal."
Tesla is a great example of how genius is not a generalizable thing. He is the reason most of us have electricity, but he was a mess when it come to understanding people.
I have heard accounts that his contributions are greatly exaggerated. He certainly did not invent AC electricity which I guess is why you assume that Tesla gave us electricity. See here for some more info https://youtu.be/6331JXvOUGY
The man understood pigeons better than people.
Tesla was born in 1856
From what I have read of Tesla, he seems like the kind of person that would change their opinion when presented with evidence
Ahh man, if only they had been sterilizing the right criminals back then. Today's political landscape would probably look a lot different.
Is that a perfect trap to catch nazis? Just wave vaguely the idea of eugenics in front of them and see if they latch on?
Tesla catching all sorts of shade for 125 years now.