OK, its just a deer, but the future is clear. These things are going to start kill people left and right.

How many kids is Elon going to kill before we shut him down? Whats the number of children we’re going to allow Elon to murder every year?

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    You don’t think humans are doing this? Everything I’ve seen is autopilot is safer than humans in the aggregate.

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      Are you honestly defending this, the software took a life and didnt react. Im not on a skynet buzz but it is concerningly bad software and implementation.

      I dont care if humans do it, they shouldnt and that should be the easy bar to clear in implementing a replacement for humans.

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        Honestly if the software is better than humans yeah. I’m also very much moving insurance costs to the software and having insurance based on those exact things.

        If the software is safer then humans I don’t care if it makes mistakes at a lower rate.

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      It kills the deer and keeps on going, it doesn’t stop to let you collect it so you can eat it. They are chaotic evil vegans.

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        You’re supposed to collect it and then stage a bicycle accident in Central Park.

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    Is there a longer video anywhere? Looking closely I have to wonder where the hell did that deer come from? There’s a car up ahead of the Tesla in the same lane, I presume quickly moved back in once it passed the deer? The deer didn’t spook or anything from that car?

    This would have been hard for a human driver to avoid hitting, but I know the issue is the right equipment would have been better than human vision, which should be the goal. And it didn’t detect the impact either since it didn’t stop.

    But I just think it’s peculiar that that deer just literally popped there without any sign of motion.

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      Is there a longer video anywhere? Looking closely I have to wonder where the hell did that deer come from?

      I have the same question. If you watch the video closely the deer is located a few feet before the 2nd reflector post you see at the start of the video. At that point in time the car in front is maybe 20’ beyond the post which means they should have encountered the deer within the last 30-40 feet but there was no reaction visible.

      You can also see both the left and right sides of the road at the reflector well before the deer is visible, you can even make out a small shrub off the road on the right, and but somehow can’t see the deer enter the road from either side?!

      It’s like the thing just teleported into the middle of the lane.

      The more I watch this the more suspicious I am that the video was edited.

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      Ever hear the phrase “like a deer caught in headlights”? That’s what they do. They see oncoming headlights and just freeze.

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        It depends. If it’s on the side of the road it may do the opposite and jump in front of you. This one actually looked like it was going to start moving, but not a chance.

        It’s the gap between where the deer is in the dark and the car in front that’s odd. Only thing I can figure is the person was in the other lane and darted over just after passing the deer.

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          The front car is probably further ahead than you think, and a deer can move onto the road quickly and freeze when looking at headlights or slow down if confused. I think in this case the deer was facing away and may not have even heard the vehicle approaching so it wasn’t trying to avoid danger.

          I avoided a deer in a similar situation while driving last week, and the car ahead of us was closer than this clip. Just had to brake and change lanes.

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        That’s why you flash your lights on and off at them, to get them to unfreeze before you get too close.

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      Deer will do that. They have absolutely no sense of self-preservation around cars.

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        That is because at a distance they freeze in case a predator hasn’t noticed them yet. Theey don’t bolt until they think an attack is imminent, and cars move to fast for them to react.

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    If you want to motivate people to action, frame it in terms of the property damage they’ll experience to their car when it hits a child. We’ve already seen how far the American public is willing to go for children’s lives, and it’s not very far at all.

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    As much as I hate Elon, self-driving cars are the future and will be way safer than some idiot behind the wheel

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      Yeah, but Elon’s self-driving cars aren’t self-driving, nor are they necessarily as safe a good driver.

      There are people out there who shouldn’t be able to drive, and in sane countries many of them don’t manage to get their licenses. But in the US for an example, apparently you can’t get anywhere without a car, so until the public transit situation is solved, drivers licenses need to be given out like candy :/ Exception being some cities with awesome public transit. The only one I’ve been to is NYC, where most people don’t really need to drive. I’d say the transit there is better than in my country.

      And the worst part is that even once real SDCs exist and can be bought, not everyone can afford them. Or maybe they’ll be more like Uber or Bolt in that you hail one from an app and it picks you up - but then people in rural areas are still fucked without being able to drive themselves.

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      “As much as I hate elon…”

      “I hate elon as much as the next guy, but…”

      “Look, I’m no elon fan, but…”

      I’m sure you all know, but to be clear, the above are the beginnings of sentences from people who don’t hate elon. They are sentences from people who like elon, but think you will hate them, or not consider their opinions, if they say out loud that they do, in fact, like elon.

      On a separate but related note, this is elon speaking at a hate-filled rally featuring a series of bigoted speakers, including himself. The rally very intentionally cosplayed an American Nazi rally that famously occurred at Madison Square garden in the 1930s. To emphasize how on the nose this all was, elon wore a specially made hat - a hat that very deliberately used an especially prominent font from the Nazi era. They are literally SCREAMING it in your face and tattooing it on their foreheads

      elon has done nothing good or admirable with his life and elon will will not do anything good or admirable with his life. You can’t compartmentalize your opinion on this, he sucks, on the whole.

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      In the day, we sweat it out on the streets

      Of a runaway American dream

      At night we ride through the mansions of glory

      In the suicide machines

      “Born to Ride” - Bruce Springsteen

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    I wouldn’t be against using teslas to clean up the deer overpopulation problem in the US. I’m in favor of rolling this code into all Tesla models in the next update.

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    Full speed in the dark, I think most people would failed to avoid that. What’s concerning is it does not stop afterwards

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      Note that part of the discussion is we shouldn’t settle for human limitations when we don’t have to. Notably things like LIDAR are considered to give these systems superhuman vision. However, Tesla said ‘eyes are good enough for folks, so just cameras’.

      The rest of the industry said LIDAR is important and focus on trying to make it more practical.

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        The rest of the industry said LIDAR is important and focus on trying to make it more practical.

        Volvo is using LIDAR. I trust them way more than Tesla when it comes to something pertaining to safety.

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        Hell, even not having lidar The thing was pretty clearly a large road obstacle a second and a half out. They had a whole left lane open At least enough time to do a significant speed reduction.

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      reading this, I am scared how dulled I have become to the danger posed from my 45 minute daily commute back from work. 65 kilometer driving into the black at 100km/h

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      Isn’t Elon advertising AI as orders of magnitudes better reaction time and much less error prone than a human though…

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        Remember when they removed ultrasonic and radar sensors in favor of “Tesla Vision”? That decision demonstrably cost people their lives and yet older, proven tech continues to be eschewed in favor of the cutting edge new shiny.

        I’m all for pushing the envelope when it comes to advancements in technology and AI in its many forms, but those of us that don’t buy Teslas never signed up to volunteer our lives as training data for FSD.

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          The cameras alone should be able to see IR. There’s filters over most digital cameras to prevent that, but no reason to do it here.

          Tesla is just advertising technology that isn’t ready, and people are dying as a result.

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            For any camera to see IR, there must be IR light there to be seen. LIDAR and proximity sensors emit their own light, but TIL tesla doesn’t have any… Great tech…my 300€ vacuum bot has LIDAR… Ofc it doesn’t go 130KM/h in the dark, but I was 99.99% sure any self-driving car had the bare minimum of sensors, but I guess Tesla isn’t one of them.

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            And its also always to have multiple layers of defence. Its straight up stupid to remove the redundancy in safety measures because you trust your tech.

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              Not only redundancy, but different types of sensors actually serve different purposes because they excel at different tasks.

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        Sensors that the Tesla famously doesn’t have (afaik, didn’t check) because Elon is a dumbass.