‘Can you fix it?’ China girl, 7, asks Elon Musk about Tesla glitch, billionaire responds
Youngster spots problem with Tesla touch-screen function, messages Elon Musk and is amazed to get a response
A seven-year-old girl in China who reached out to Elon Musk on X to report a bug in Tesla’s cars and unexpectedly received a response from the world’s richest man has delighted mainland social media.
The story began to unfold on July 1 when someone using the handle “DriveGreenLiveGreen” posted a video on X which was titled “Molly decided to report an important bug to Mr Musk” and tagged the tech billionaire.
In the video, a girl called Molly from Beijing draws attention to a discrepancy she discovered in the drawing function on Tesla’s touch-screen facility and expressed her hope that Musk would address it.
She said: “Hello Mr Musk, I have a question for your car. When I draw a picture, sometimes it will disappear like this.”
Demonstrating the problem, she draws on the screen and shows how new strokes on the touch-screen automatically cause previous ones to disappear.
Molly then directly asks Musk: “Do you see it? Can you fix it? Thank you.”