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That a human was still in the loop in addition to a computer and both missed it.


> That a human was still in the loop in addition to a computer and both missed it.

Listen to the audio in the video. The humans do see it and talk about it for a long time before the car hits it. Had a human been driving, plenty of time to avoid it without any rush.

They do nothing to avoid it presumably because the whole point of the experiment was to let the car drive, so they let it drive to see what happens. Turns out Tesla can't see large static objects in clear daylight, so it drives straight into it.


But that's not what happened.

They saw it, called it out, and very deliberately let the car (not) deal with it because that was the point of what they were doing.

They did not "miss" anything.


They had poor incentives. The driver wanted to only use FSD for the video which is dumb.

But it doesn’t help disprove that it’s entirely the computers fault. They could have taken action if they were a rational driver.

From my perspective I think many people would have failed to take action. Swerving or hard breaking at those speeds is very dangerous. And many things on the road like roadkill or bags can be driver over


I don't know where you're going with this.

You said the driver and car both missed it.

I say the fact that you can hear them discuss the object well before hitting it yet clearly not try to avoid it means they did not actually "miss it", which is also why my first comment in this thread was in response to the notion that "a human did hit that..."

These drivers hitting the object while intentionally not intervening does not actually provide information as to whether other drivers not running the same "experiment" would've hit it.




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