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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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[-] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 14 points 3 months ago

It was an illegal deer immigrant, it recognised it, added it to the database on Tesla servers, and mowed it down before it took any jobs or whatever the hate-concern was.

/s

... but some actual technically human people do the same when they see an animal, don't they?
:(

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[-] pdxfed@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago

You just need to buy the North America Animal Recognition AI subscription and this wouldn't be an issue plebs, it will stop for 28 out of 139 mammals!

[-] SpiceDealer@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago

OK, its just a deer...

Vegans have left the chat

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[-] WhyFlip@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago

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

[-] boonhet@lemm.ee 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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.

[-] Snapz@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

"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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[-] scarabic@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months 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.

[-] whotookkarl@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago

It doesn't have to not kill people to be an improvement, it just has to kill less people than people do

[-] ano_ba_to@sopuli.xyz 10 points 3 months ago

That's a low bar when you consider how stringent airline safety is in comparison, and that kills way less people than driving does. If sensors can save people's lives, then knowingly not including them for profit is intentionally malicious.

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[-] themurphy@lemmy.ml 11 points 3 months ago

I hate Tesla as much as the next guy in here.

But I learned at my driving lessons that you shouldn't hit the breaks for animals running into your lane, because it can result in a car crash that's way worse. (think truck behind you with a much longer break length.)

Don't know if there's different rules.

[-] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago

You learned wrong if you think that is a universal rule for all animals.

You might have been told that for small animals like squirrels, but that is more about not overreacting. You should absolutely brake for a deer, whether or not you are being tailgated, just like you would brake for any large object on the road.

Hitting a deer at speed is going to cause far more problems for you AND the people behind you than trying to not hit the deer.

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[-] MagicShel@lemmy.zip 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I hit a deer on the highway in the middle of the night going about 80mph. I smelled the failed airbag charge and proceeded to drive home without stopping. By the time I stopped, I would never have been able to find the deer. If your vehicle isn't disabled, what's the big deal about stopping?

I've stuck two deer and my car wasn't disabled either time. My daughter hit one and totaled our van. She stopped.

That said, fuck Musk.

[-] Sentau@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 3 months ago

Maybe drive a little slower at night. If you can't spot and react to animals on your path, you won't able to react when it's a human

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[-] daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

People are well known for never ever running over anything or anyone.

[-] snekerpimp@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

Honestly, I’m surprised the car was still in one piece. I’ve seen semi-trucks disintegrate after hitting a dear.

[-] puppy@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

In what way? If it's the bumpers and the crumple zone, then that's a feature. Do you have a picture about what you are talking about? I'm curious.

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[-] pyre@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

don't most cars have proximity and collision detectors now?

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[-] Fleur_@lemm.ee 8 points 3 months ago

I cannot support tesla now that I know they aren't vegan smh

[-] Rhaedas@fedia.io 7 points 3 months ago

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.

[-] catloaf@lemm.ee 10 points 3 months ago

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

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