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US probes Tesla's Full Self-Driving software after fatal crash

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410 points jjulius | 2 comments | 18 Oct 24 16:01 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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dietsche ◴[18 Oct 24 16:27 UTC] No.41880940[source]▶
I would like more details. There are definitely situations where neither a car nor a human could respond quickly enough to a situation on the road.

for example, I recently hit a deer. The dashcam shows that I had less than 100 feet from when the deer became visible due to terrain to impact while driving at 60 mph. Keeping in mind that stopping a car in 100 feet at 60 mph is impossible. Most vehicles need more than triple that without accounting for human reaction time.

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arcanemachiner ◴[18 Oct 24 18:28 UTC] No.41882116[source]▶
This is called "overdriving your vision", and it's so common that it boggles my mind. (This opinion might have something to do with the deer I hit when I first started driving...)

Drive according to the conditions, folks.

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1. thebruce87m ◴[19 Oct 24 07:40 UTC] No.41886298[source]▶
There is a difference between driving too fast around a corner to stop for something stationary on the road and driving through countryside where something might jump out.

I live in a country with deer but the number of incidences of them interacting with road users is so low that it does not factor in to my risk tolerance.

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2. Zigurd ◴[19 Oct 24 16:23 UTC] No.41888742[source]▶
The risks vary with speed. At 30mph a deer will be injured and damage your car, and you might have to call animal control to find the deer if it was able to get away. At 45mph there is a good chance the deer will impact your windshield. If it breaks through, that's how people die in animal collisions. They get kicked to death by a frantic, panicked, injured animal.