Tesla’s Self-Actuating, Self-Plugging Snake Charger Is Terrifying

-We were warned this would happen. Back in December, Tesla Motors Tweeter-in-Chief Elon Musk revealed that his electric-car company was working on an automated charging plug.

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Btw, we are actually working on a charger that automatically moves out from the wall & connects like a solid metal snake. For realz.

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— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 31, 2014

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Sure, at the time we laughed. “Solid metal snake?” we chortled. “For realz?” we guffawed. It turns out that the future is now, and it’s terrifying. Just witness this unsettlingly animated mecha-tentacle activate and find its way to the Model S’s charging port.

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Now, to be fair, the company is still calling it a prototype, and there’s no word as to whether such a device could make it to production anytime soon. Which is probably a good thing—I mean, this robot is pure, 100-percent nightmare-inducing. Don’t let your kids watch this, they won’t sleep for days.

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Charger prototype finding its way to Model S.
https://t.co/L9E4MR642G

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— Tesla Motors (@TeslaMotors) August 6, 2015

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Frankly, neither will we.

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This story originally appeared on roadandtrack.com via Jalopnik​.

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