Tesla Using 'Full Self-Driving' Hits Deer Without Slowing, Doesn't Stop
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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?

  • Hubi@feddit.orgEnglish
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    2 months ago

    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.

    • nialv7@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Yeah this Tesla owner is dumb. wdym “we just need to train the AI to know what deer butts look like”? Tesla had radar and sonar, it didn’t need to know what a deer’s butt looks like because radar would’ve told it something was there! But they took it away because Musk had the genius idea of only using cameras for whatever reason.

    • AA5B@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      I’d go even farther and say most driving is an edge case. I used 30 day trial of full self-driving and the results were eye opening. Not how it did: it was pretty much as expected, but looking at where it went wrong.

      Full self driving did very well in “normal” cases, but I never realized just how much of driving was an “edge” case. Lane markers faded? No road edge but the ditch? Construction? Pothole? Debris? Other car does something they shouldn’t have? Traffic lights not aligned in front of you so it’s not clear what lane? Intersection not aligned so you can’t just go straight across? People intruding? Contradictory signs? Signs covered by tree branches? No sight line when turning?

      After that experiment, it seems like “edge” cases are more common than “normal” cases when driving. Humans just handle it without thinking about it, but the car needs more work here

    • teft@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

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

      • rottingleaf@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 months ago

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

        I’ve read that they do that … somewhere.

      • snooggums@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 months ago

        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.

        • ArxCyberwolf@lemmy.caEnglish
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          2 months 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.