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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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[–] scarabic@lemmy.world 12 points 6 days ago

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.

[–] SpiceDealer@lemmy.world 11 points 6 days ago (1 children)

OK, its just a deer...

Vegans have left the chat

[–] irish_link@lemmy.world 0 points 6 days ago

What if I told you that this has happened with Kids and recorded with kid stand ins. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mnG_Gbxf_w Not perfect evidence but the best you will find without signing a Tesla Non Disclosure.

self driving cars should absolutely be banned from public roads.

[–] Hubi@feddit.org 228 points 1 week ago (54 children)

The poster, who pays Tesla CEO Elon Musk for a subscription to the increasingly far-right social media site, claimed that the FSD software “works awesome” and that a deer in the road is an “edge case.” One might argue that edge cases are actually very important parts of any claimed autonomy suite, given how drivers check out when they feel the car is doing the work, but this owner remains “insanely grateful” to Tesla regardless.

How are these people always such pathetic suckers.

[–] teft@lemmy.world 146 points 1 week ago (5 children)

I grew up in Maine. Deer in the road isn’t an edge case there. It’s more like a nightly occurrence.

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

Fences alongside the road and special animal crossings are unfeasible with US roads length, yes?...

I've read that they do that ... somewhere.

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 51 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Same in Kansas. Was in a car that hit one in the 80s and see them often enough that I had to avoid one that was crossing a busy interstste highway last week.

Deer are the opposite of an edge case in the majority of the US.

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[–] leftytighty@slrpnk.net 35 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Being a run of the mill fascist (rather than those in power) is actually an incredibly submissive position, they just want strong daddies to take care of them and make the bad people go away. It takes courage to be a "snowflake liberal" by comparison

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

Not really, a good fascist should be always ready to fight for their place in the sun, on all levels, their collective included. There's no rightful domination there, or right per se, but there is fighting and the resulting domination of the strongest. So if you disobey and lose, you have contributed to fascism to the best of your ability. If you disobey and win, you are the most virtuous fascist. Apathy is the worst crime there. It's the "jungle" ideology in some sense.

It would be fine if not for the fact that it doesn't contribute anything to the human, just describes the basic level and how to succeed there, but there are better levels.

Still I think it's important to deeply understand fascism and how it's not all evil, because we must understand why and when it's in demand. It's an ideology of chaotic life and violent evolution, and the demand for it arises when more gracious alternatives erode, and nothing around is certain other than one's will to fight.

Umberto Eco's "Foucault's Pendulum" is a wonderful book deeply exploring fascist aesthetic, by the way.

The issue with fascist followers (an important word) is that it doesn't take anything to pretend to be a fascist, while being a submissive slave in fact.

I actually find it funny how if you remove NAP from anarcho-capitalism, it can become both classical fascism and classical anarchism, with the difference being in what people of these ideologies want from the future, not the rules these ideologies impose.

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[–] independantiste@sh.itjust.works 88 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Only keeping the regular cameras was a genius move to hold back their full autonomy plans

[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 50 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The day he said that "ReGULAr CAmErAs aRe ALl YoU NeEd" was the day I lost all trust in their implementation. And I'm someone who's completely ready to turn over all my driving to an autopilot lol

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[–] w3dd1e@lemm.ee 47 points 1 week ago (23 children)

Deer aren’t edge cases. If you are in a rural community or the suburbs, deer are a daily way of life.

As more and more of their forests are destroyed, deer are a daily part of city life. I live in the middle of a large midwestern city; in neighborhood with houses crowded together. I see deer in my lawn regularly.

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[–] bluGill@fedia.io 39 points 1 week ago (13 children)

Driving is full of edge cases. Humans are also bad drivers who get edge cases wrong all the time.

The real question isn't is Tesla better/worse in anyone in particular, but overall how does Tesla compare. If a Tesla is better in some situations and worse in others and so overall just as bad as a human I can accept it. Is Tesla is overall worse then they shouldn't be driving at all (If they can identify those situations they can stop and make a human take over). If a Tesla is overall better then I'll accept a few edge cases where they are worse.

Tesla claims overall they are better, but they may not be telling the truth. One would think regulators have data for the above - but they are not talking about it.

[–] scarabic@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

Yeah there are edge cases in all directions.

When people want to say that someone is very rare they should say “corner case,” but this doesn’t seem to have made it out of QA lingo and into the popular lexicon.

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[–] Emerald@lemmy.world 38 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

I notice nobody has commented on the fact that the driver should've reacted to the deer. It's not Tesla's responsibility to emergency brake, even if that is a feature in the system. Drivers are responsible for their vehicle's movements at the end of the day.

[–] chaogomu@lemmy.world 37 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Then it's not "Full self driving". It's at best lane assistance, but I wouldn't trust that either.

Elon needs to shut the fuck up about self driving and maybe issue a full recall, because he's going to get people killed.

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[–] JamesStallion@sh.itjust.works 37 points 1 week ago (1 children)

All cars are death machines

[–] EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 1 points 6 days ago

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

[–] homesnatch@lemm.ee 32 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I watched the whole video.. Mowed down like 90 deer in a row.

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[–] sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 31 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Why does this read like an ad for cybertrucks for people who would want to run over deer

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[–] Madnessx9@lemmy.world 30 points 1 week ago (14 children)

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

[–] EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 3 points 6 days ago

Didn't stop afterwards, didn't even attempt to brake

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 1 points 6 days ago

Why is anyone going full speed in the dark? Let alone an unsafe self driving car.

[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 39 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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.

[–] EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 6 points 6 days ago

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.

[–] linearchaos@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

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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[–] Turbonics@lemmy.sdf.org 30 points 1 week ago (3 children)

The autopilot knows deers can't sue

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