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?

  • snekerpimp@lemmy.worldEnglish
    116·
    16 days ago

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

    • puppy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      16 days 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.

      • NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.worldEnglish
        92·
        16 days ago

        If the deer is above certain height, its body comes up and enters your precious room through the windshield. You are lucky if you survive then.

          • ThunderWhiskers@lemmy.worldEnglish
            101·
            16 days ago

            No they aren’t. Deer are often struck mid-bound which will absolutely send them flying into your windshield. Also, depending on what part of the world you are in, deer can get pretty huge.

          • nyan@lemmy.cafeEnglish
            61·
            16 days ago

            Moose are technically deer (taxonomic family Cervidae, which also contains reindeer, red deer, roe deer, etc). And a big bull can weigh almost a (US conventional) ton. I don’t know whether that’s enough to trash a modern semi (based on an old memory of an apparently undamaged semi and a dead moose on the shoulder of an Ontario highway in the 1990s, I’d guess probably not, or at least not always), but I wouldn’t want to be the driver of the semi, either. Hitting them in an ordinary passenger vehicle—like any Tesla product—is something you really don’t want to do.

          • snooggums@lemmy.worldEnglish
            3·
            16 days ago

            Moose are worse because they are heavier and the impact means most of the body mass goes ibtonthe windshield, but deer go right over hoods and into the windsheild on most cars too.

      • snekerpimp@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        16 days ago

        I don’t keep pictures like that on me, and I don’t feel like doing a google search for you. Travel blue ridge parkway or skyline drive, or any back road in the Appalachians and you will see what happens when a ten point meets metal.

    • deranger@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      8·
      16 days ago

      I’ve seen semi-trucks disintegrate after hitting a dear.

      I’d like to see that, I’ve seen modern regular full size trucks annihilate a deer without disintegrating. Semis wouldn’t be bothered much unless you’re talking about something larger like a moose. Deer are about the same weight as humans, whatever is good at killing humans is usually good for deer.

      The average weight of an adult male is 203 lb (maximum, 405 lb). The average weight of a female is about 155 lb (maximum, 218 lb).

      https://www.esf.edu/aec/adks/mammals/wtd.php

      • Shadywack@lemmy.worldEnglish
        8·
        16 days ago

        Granted the semi I saw had a guard on the front of it, but I witnessed one smoke a fully grown cow at 70mph. Sent the cow and pieces of it flying about 100 feet, with no visible damage to the truck at all. There was a tremendous amount of blood and spatter everywhere and my own car got a ton of blood on it from the cloud of guts and blood made by the truck. Mostly there was just shit everywhere leading up to the remnants of the carcass, but the truck gave no fucks whatsoever. I asked the driver if he was ok and he didn’t even seem to have any agitation whatsoever, more like “oh, another one”.

        A truck will not disintegrate, there might be damage if it didn’t have a guard, but against a deer, that must’ve been a paper mache piece of shit truck if it disintegrated on a deer.