Instead of writing on open letter why not reply to the Twitter post?
Had to make it sound official.
An open letter to the Tesla fan who wants to run over a kid
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#12Yeah, come on guy. Don't use a kid, use a little person. They can consent.
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#15> Don’t force a kid to walk in front of your 4,000-pound metal box traveling at god knows what speed Some consolation, according to the tweet chain, is that it'll be at 5MPH and the child wouldn't be in front of the car (just on the sidewalk approaching the road). Still not sure the need to put an actual child at any risk when the car stopping for a dummy would prove the same point if not stronger.
There's a non-zero chance the Autopilot will think the kid is a freeway center divider and accelerate into it.
Re: An open letter to the Tesla fan who wants to run over a kid
#16The person in question has already written a response to the open letter: https://twitter.com/WholeMarsBlog/status/1558122848601812993
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#17The Twitter post in question ( https://twitter.com/wholemarsblog/status/1557112809132945408 ) says “(this is a serious request)”. Fine, then let’s treat it like a serious request. Apparently someone volunteered a child ( https://twitter.com/wholemarsblog/status/1557206098876194816 , presumably their own child). Has this (pseudonymous) person done a proper study workup? This is a proposal to put a child into a potenti…
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Re: An open letter to the Tesla fan who wants to run over a kid
#18The Twitter post in question ( https://twitter.com/wholemarsblog/status/1557112809132945408 ) says “(this is a serious request)”. Fine, then let’s treat it like a serious request. Apparently someone volunteered a child ( https://twitter.com/wholemarsblog/status/1557206098876194816 , presumably their own child). Has this (pseudonymous) person done a proper study workup? This is a proposal to put a child into a potenti…
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Re: An open letter to the Tesla fan who wants to run over a kid
#19The person in question has already written a response to the open letter: https://twitter.com/WholeMarsBlog/status/1558122848601812993
> I’ll run over as many kids as I want and you can’t stop me!!
I'm actually not expecting the Tesla to run over the child (because either it will stop, or the driver will intervene and slam on the brakes or avoid the child). But it also gives me 100% confidence that this person is the exact wrong person to perform any scientific test of the system to even remotely validate its safety.