You mean a three-wheeled two-seater that fills it’s own “gas tank” by sitting outside in the sun? Given that charging infrastructure (especially for people with no garage or exterior 240V service) is one of the biggest barriers to EV adoption, I think it’s a compelling prospect. 1000 mile range for the top-end…

Came here to say that ; surprised it’s so deep in the comments. You don’t see it on the excerpt at top of the page but the video on X is itself very clear.

I don’t know if not paying attention is human nature exactly, but more like driving is so completely unnatural that it’s really easy to stop using the forced adaptations we’ve developed when driving no longer feels like something you have to actively do. I’ve seen it in myself with automation I’ve programmed from time…

Braking just makes the front dip, turning your hood into a scoop and making it more likely the deer will enter the passenger cabin via the front windshield.

Also, humans are not ‘the best drivers’. Humans suck and cause thousands of accidents all the time. Why on earth would you want to mimick that?

You can’t see in the dark? Have you tried? Your eyes are very sensitive in the dark if you don’t have other distracting lights ruining your vision. There’s a ton of light out there.

Not to mention a human driver paying attention would have seen that car ahead changing lanes and ask “Now what were they avoiding?”

To steal a phrase, it’s for the same reason a Soviet RBMK reactor used graphite tips on its control rods - it’s cheaper.

Thank you for the much needed laugh! You win the internet today - that is hilarious!

I never understood the argument for 100% vision. I’ve heard people counter saying “humans are the best drivers and use 100% vision; it’s tested and works”. True, but humans also use other combined senses, and last I checked I can’t see in the dark or through a snow storm.

Elon is never going to have babies with you.

Not only do people regularly hit deer, I know multiple people who have had a deer hit the sides of their cars on the highway. 

It’s not even an edge case in California where these cars are tested. I came across so many deer in the Bay Area when I lived there.

My wife grew up in rural Maine. Forget the deer, the moose were the real danger. She has really well defined “deer-dar” and will tell me she senses deer and sure enough, it normally isn’t long before you see the tiny bits of eyeshine in the woods.

Does anyone that actually owns a Tesla actually drive it like a human? Even with the auto-pilot -whatever activated, your eyes should still be on the road 101% of the time to intervene in any emergency.

Hitting a deer isn’t an “edge” case in a lot of places, like a lot of the Midwest, I know far fewer people living there who haven’t hit a deer there than have hit one. I have taken out a coyote on the interstate once (only damage was front plate as it was a clean head to plate hit) and we had a deer total one of our…

I live in the middle of Oklahoma City, and passed TWO on the way to work that were dead on the side of the road.

Living in a rural area, and it being late October, I would hardly call a deer in the road an edge case. I’ve probably seen as many of them driving this week as I have red lights.

The car did alert after hitting the deer, it just alerted RFK, Jr. to come pick up the carcass and dispose of it in Central Park. That’s the new protocol. 

He replied with his “FSD will make everything better!” Pitch even then. He's been using that for nearly a decade now. And yet, recently it's been announced that most Teslas currently on the road won't support the system.