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

submitted 3 weeks 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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[–] teft@lemmy.world 145 points 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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.

[–] Granite@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

Same, hit one just south of Lyndon at night.

[–] Snowpix@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 weeks 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.world 7 points 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] TheLowestStone@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago

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

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