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Video of Tesla emergency braking or avoiding hitting a pedestrian that ran in front of it would go viral instantly. Can you show me a few? maybe one?



Oh whoops, I posted the wrong list of videos (those are FSD Beta ones). For emergency braking and "maneuvering" out of the way, Whaam Baam Tesla Cam channel has you covered. Here are a few videos with some examples (and no, they do not go viral - no accident and no drama does not sell ads):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSeIOg4SyOg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krKkuIEMXHI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZebkknqGkxE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0_eKr8jnNo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHM6xY2Ys4U

Oh and I have personally avoided an accident so far when a whole bunch of cars on the highway slammed on the break and autopilot sounded an alarm and braked. So there you go.


Seems you didnt understand me. "pedestrian" is not a car. I meant avoiding hitting living things, not property.

1 Mountain lion runs across, cant see car slowing down at all despite what the description text says. Cat barely makes it and car keeps going.

2 Bird almost hits windshield. Owners own description is he took over.

3 Property and "funny home videos"

4 Well, what do you know. EXACT SAME situation as in Jessa Jones clip happens at @2:20 "all of a sudden a deer ran out onto the road but autopilot didn't react at all, gracie's applied the brakes only moments before impact but it was too late " Living creature hit, $4500 bill an 2 weeks without the car. @6:30 plows into road debris roughly size and shape of a human lying on the road. @9:00 finally a human, on a crosswalk, 50 meters in front. @11:00 Coyote, zero reaction and human takes over to avoid accident.

5 @3:30 At first looks like Tesla finally detects animal on the road, but no. It simply reacts to car in front (braking for the animal) and starts accelerating as soon as the car in front moves on, almost driving over the small deer in the process.

Tesla seems to be really good as spotting cars, and might even have a special case for humans on crosswalks, but every single clip with animal ends with accident or human taking over. 4 @6:30 shows what would happen if an unconscious person fell on the road.

Off topic: I love clip 4 @11:50. Hitting small wooden post at 20mph = totaled Tesla :o


You are literally confirming what my grandparent post said:

Where do you hear about all the time Teslas saved lives? You don't, because even throwing evidence in people's face, they only list the fuck-ups.

I rest my case.


Not driving into a pedestrian slowly walking on a crosswalk is not saving lives. That was the _only_ example of Tesla reacting correctly to a living thing, all others ended in accidents, death or human taking over. And those were your "good" examples.


> And those were your "good" examples.

That was me searching for a minute. If you actually care to learn something, you'd spend a few hours of your own time looking for what's actually true. If I was to go out of my way to show good examples (which I'm not going to do, for your lazy ass), you would say something like "oh great, my 10 year old nephew can do that".

So I'm not gonna bother with you pal — I'll convince people on the fence, they'll take care of convincing you.

Enjoy your video games.


Its not about humans being able to "do the same", its about Tesla not being programmed _at all_ to avoid anything other than Cars and maybe pedestrians on a crosswalk. It doesnt consider any other obstacles on the road and plows into them.



These are FSD Beta videos — I posted the saves videos in a sibling reply.




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