An open letter to the Tesla fan who wants to run over a kid • Hacker News Board

Re: An open letter to the Tesla fan who wants to run over a kid

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Post by mysterydip » Sat, Aug 13, 2022, 1:16 AM UTC

How many times would you need to test it to verify it worked? Different time of day, weather, lighting, etc could change the outcome.

Re: An open letter to the Tesla fan who wants to run over a kid

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Post by superchroma » Sat, Aug 13, 2022, 1:18 AM UTC

contravariant wrote: post #22

Can someone explain to me what the point is in proving a Tesla won't run over children provided it detects they are real?

Nothing. This is idiotic attention seeking. Software engineers know that you don't set up a demo and proclaim that a previously demonstrated edge case isn't real because it "works for me". You just fix the issue. That's it.

Re: An open letter to the Tesla fan who wants to run over a kid

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Post by acer4666 » Sat, Aug 13, 2022, 1:18 AM UTC

I guess he should've run over a straw man instead, like the author of this letter

Re: An open letter to the Tesla fan who wants to run over a kid

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Post by dieselgate » Sat, Aug 13, 2022, 1:22 AM UTC

There are so many deer around california/oregon this time of year driving around outside of the city for a bit wouldn't take too long to find one. Not the same though of course

Re: An open letter to the Tesla fan who wants to run over a kid

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Post by groffee » Sat, Aug 13, 2022, 1:22 AM UTC

mysterydip wrote: post #31

How many times would you need to test it to verify it worked? Different time of day, weather, lighting, etc could change the outcome.

No post body was provided.

Re: An open letter to the Tesla fan who wants to run over a kid

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Post by dieselgate » Sat, Aug 13, 2022, 1:23 AM UTC

superchroma wrote: post #30

tsol wrote: post #29

Why would you use a real child? That's so dumb

The car would know otherwise. It has to be real or the car won't take the exercise seriously.

This is sarcasm and not actually true right? Presumably a full self driving car wouldn't run into a stray shopping cart in the parking lot

Re: An open letter to the Tesla fan who wants to run over a kid

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Post by dieselgate » Sat, Aug 13, 2022, 1:24 AM UTC

trhr wrote: post #12

Yeah, come on guy. Don't use a kid, use a little person. They can consent.

Agree with not using an U-18 human for the consent part

Re: An open letter to the Tesla fan who wants to run over a kid

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Post by elisharobinson » Sat, Aug 13, 2022, 1:26 AM UTC

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Re: An open letter to the Tesla fan who wants to run over a kid

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Post by mrjin » Sat, Aug 13, 2022, 1:33 AM UTC

mysterydip wrote: post #31

How many times would you need to test it to verify it worked? Different time of day, weather, lighting, etc could change the outcome.

Actually it doesn't matter how many times it has been verified working properly. One single failure would be more than enough...

Re: An open letter to the Tesla fan who wants to run over a kid

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Post by boomboomsubban » Sat, Aug 13, 2022, 1:38 AM UTC

Veserv wrote: post #16

The person in question has already written a response to the open letter: https://twitter.com/WholeMarsBlog/status/1558122848601812993

Does a proximity to Elon Musk make people forget that optics are a thing? Yeah this is a dumb joke, making a dumb joke about running over children still makes you look like an asshole.