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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    If you watch the video, the deer was standing on a strip of off coloured pavement, and also had about the same length as the dotted line. Not sure how much colour information comes through at night on those cameras.

    The point here isn’t actually “should it have stopped for the deer” , it’s “if the system can’t even see the deer, how could it be expected to distinguish between a deer and a child?”

    The calculus changes incredibly between a deer and a child.

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      4 hours ago

      At the same time, it would have located it if it was using radar, but Musk decided that cameras are the future (contrary to all other brands)

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        Yeah. I mean, I understand the premise, I just think it’s flawed. Like, you and I as vehicle operators use two cameras when we drive (our two eyes). It’s hypothetically sufficient in terms of raw data input.

        Where it falls apart is that we also have brains which have evolved in ways we don’t even understand to consume those inputs effectively.

        But most importantly, why aim for parity at all? Why NOT give our cars the tools to “see” better than a human? I want that!

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          No human could have avoided that deer without swerving their car.

          A lidar provides superhuman vision which works in the dark and through fog. Elon is making a human car and ignores all the limits we have that can be solved in other ways.

          A human is a general purpose organism. We are not designed as specialized driving machines.

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      Agree, it didn’t do anything to avoid the obstacle. A human could probably see it as an obstacle and try to swerve to the side, albeit not knowing what it is. Not saying it’s possible to avoid, but some reaction would be made.

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        A human could probably see it as an obstacle and try to swerve to the side, albeit not knowing what it is.

        Attempting to swerve aside at that speed results in over correction, followed by loss of control and then a rollover crash. Happens all the time to people who aren’t aware / don’t remember that you’re supposed to hit deer head on.