VantaBrandonOct 30, 2024

Elon's Death Machine (aka Tesla) Mows Down Deer at Full Speed , Keeps Going on "Autopilot"

https://lemmy.world/post/21439753

Elon's Death Machine (aka Tesla) Mows Down Deer at Full Speed , Keeps Going on "Autopilot" - Lemmy.World

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?

Show threadHubiOct 30, 2024

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.

Show threadteft
I grew up in Maine. Deer in the road isn’t an edge case there. It’s more like a nightly occurrence.
Oct 30, 2024 at 1:35pmWeb
Show thread[deleted] in lemmyOct 30, 2024

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.

Show threadleftytightyOct 30, 2024
Putting these valid points aside we’re also all just taking for granted that the software would have properly identified a human under the same circumstances…
Show thread[deleted] in lemmyOct 30, 2024
I’m not taking that for granted. If it can’t tell a solid object os in the road, I would guess that would be true for a human that is balled up or facing away as well.
Show threadGraniteOct 30, 2024
Same, hit one just south of Lyndon at night.
Show threadArxCyberwolfOct 30, 2024
It’s no different in Southern Ontario where I live. Saw a semi truck plow into one, it really wasn’t pretty. Another left a huge dent on my mom’s car when she hit one driving at night.
Show threadTheLowestStoneOct 30, 2024
I drove through rural Arkansas at sundown once. I’ve never seen so many deer in my life.
Show threadnillocOct 31, 2024
Same in northern Michigan in mid summer. And most of New England as well.
Show threadTheLowestStoneOct 31, 2024
I grew up in upstate NY so I’m no stranger to deer. This was something else. We were driving through the Winding Staircase mountain and there were hundreds of them. My wife kept screaming and grabbing my arm while I was driving until I had to stop in the middle of the (empty except for us and the deer) road to calmly explain that she was making the situation significantly worse.
Show threadrottingleafNov 2, 2024

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

I’ve read that they do that … somewhere.