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Anyone who is "not decided" is not going to watch a Bernie vid. What a waste of effort.

Gra-haaaammm. Come out to play-ee.

I’m betting no.

The clickety clack is slowing down. Here. We. Go.

Two amazing FGs tonight.

Ahhhh, French girls. 80’s/90’s Emmanuelle Béart might have been a borderline obsession for me. Alas, -ost-90’s EB makes me curse cosmetic surgery.

I clicked on the original video out of morbid curiosity and immediately regretted the damage to my YouTube algo. I can't imagine the bullshit I will now have to navigate to find stuff that interests me.

This all goes back to R2 and threepio. We love those guys. If we fully explored the implications, we would actually be troubled by the extent of enslavement of self-aware androids in the Star Wars universe.

I was responding to this and this only:

I think there is plenty of context to deduce that the vehicle in the left lane never saw the deer. The Tesla is about five seconds behind the vehicle in the left lane. The vehicle already has their blinker on about a second before the point in the road where the Tesla finally saw the deer. To support your hypothesis, the vehicle in the left lane would have had to see the deer nearly ten seconds earlier than the Tesla did.

Go back and read my post. I said that the system should have responded better post-collision. Brisket said: My follow-on response to that is that it isn't as "fucked up" as his standard hyperbole claims. It happens. I know people who have done it.

Kept going because they had an F-250 with a brush guard and only a few miles to get home. Didn't think the damage was bad as they didn't feel much with a vehicle that size. Took a couple of miles before enough coolant leaked out to give a warning.

Not saying that they didn't notice it, but they just kept going.

I know people who have driven right through a deer-strike and didn't stop until their engine light came on. I can't be the only one who knows of people who have done that. Personally, I have squashed a squirrel and an armadillo without tapping the brakes or stopping afterward.

No defense for Telsa's service system. It sucks. Fortunately the quality and performance of my vehicle has been such that I haven't needed Tesla service in over 3.5 years. That's an interesting video. Here are a couple of factors that I think contributed to the accident: 1. FSD watches the vehicles around it and factors that into its decision-making. From the actions of the vehicle ahead, all indications are that the road ahead is clear. It's apparent that the car ahead didn't see the deer either - no brake lights or swerving. They moved from the left lane into the right lane and look to have been lucky in the fact that they got over just past where the deer was in the road. 2. The old painted stripe in the road creates a lighter area where the deer blends in to the foreground and makes it harder to detect. 3. The time between the deer becoming readily visible to impact is about 2 seconds. That may sound like a lot of time to react, but this situation would result in a deer-strike 90+% of the time with a human driver. None of these factors excuse the system for not recognizing the collision and reacting appropriately. It must do better at responding post-collision. I'll also concede that LIDAR or RADAR would likely have helped in this situation. I'll also submit that the "no accidents ever" standard is not a straw man. There is a significant portion of the population who will denounce an autonomous system every time it has an accident, not accounting for the fact that the accidents occur at a fraction of the rate of human drivers. I think it's a good sign that we only see stories about Tesla FSD accidents once every few weeks. If these were coming out a few times a week, that would be good reason for concern. But that's not what is happening. Tesla just opened up 30-day free FSD for all vehicles again a few weeks ago. We haven't seen a slew of reporting on FSD accidents. It could be that the data is lagging a bit, or it could be that accidents with FSD happen at a pretty low rate. Time will tell.

LIDAR. That’s claimed to be the level 5 panacea. Not sure how much it would help in a deer strike situation. Sonar would not be helpful at highway speeds. It’s fine for self-parking systems and low-speed collision avoidance.

Sigh… Why are there “a couple million deer strikes each year”? Because this is an exceptionally difficult driving situation. It usually occurs at night or in low light. Deer move fast and are relatively small and have evolved to blend into the background. Most deer strikes happen at full speed because drivers have almost no time to react. I’d love to see FSD evolve and improve to the point that deer strikes very rarely or never happen. I don’t know how realistic that is, but it would be awesome. I know this will shock you, but I do not see this story as the pwn on FSD that you guys do. You’re trying to apply an incredibly advanced standard of performance that vastly exceeds what human drivers do today. I don’t know that any autonomous system will ever advance to the point that animal strikes never happen.

Username and all... Y'all are doing YGIFS proud carrying on the legacy.