Tesla Using 'Full Self-Driving' Hits Deer Without Slowing, Doesn't Stop
jalopnik.com
How's that computer-vision-only approach working out for you, Tesla?

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?

  • teft@lemmy.worldEnglish
    147·
    2 months ago

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

    • snooggums@lemmy.worldEnglish
      51·
      2 months ago

      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.

      • leftytighty@slrpnk.netEnglish
        22·
        2 months ago

        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… This could very easily have been a much more chilling outcome

        • snooggums@lemmy.worldEnglish
          15·
          2 months ago

          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.

      • ArxCyberwolf@lemmy.caEnglish
        3·
        2 months ago

        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.

        • TheLowestStone@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          2 months ago

          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.

    • rottingleaf@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

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

      I’ve read that they do that … somewhere.