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

submitted 1 month ago by VantaBrandon@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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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[–] Hubi@feddit.org 229 points 1 month ago (64 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 month ago (3 children)

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

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 51 points 1 month ago (3 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.

[–] leftytighty@slrpnk.net 22 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month 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.

[–] Snowpix@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month 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.

[–] Granite@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Same, hit one just south of Lyndon at night.

[–] TheLowestStone@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I drove through rural Arkansas at sundown once. I've never seen so many deer in my life.

[–] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Same in northern Michigan in mid summer. And most of New England as well.

[–] TheLowestStone@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month 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.world 1 points 1 month ago

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

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

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