I think he should let the kid drive the car, and then walk in front of it himself, on his knees so he's kid-high.
An open letter to the Tesla fan who wants to run over a kid
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Re: An open letter to the Tesla fan who wants to run over a kid
#52I mean, it's not even that hard to put together a child-size dummy of ballistic gel (a la Mythbusters). Doesn't have to be a work of art, and it should be indistinguishable from the real thing (in terms of radar signature, etc). Why not just have someone put one on a low cart and drag it along the road in front of your speeding Tesla, and beta-test it that way? Isn't Tesla doing that?
You don't even need to match the radar signature of humans, it shouldn't be driving through any object of that size in the road.
Re: An open letter to the Tesla fan who wants to run over a kid
#53There is something seriously wrong with Elon fans.
There is something seriously wrong with people who have critical thinking skills who are unable to recognize the fabricated bullshit being written to discredit anything related to Elon.
Re: An open letter to the Tesla fan who wants to run over a kid
#54The 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…
> And for the person who volunteered their own child, I wonder if they should be talking to CPS right now.
And the fan who made the request should get his driving license yanked indefinitely.
He just proved without a doubt that his character is unfit to let him drive a potentially deadly vehicle on public roads.
Re: An open letter to the Tesla fan who wants to run over a kid
#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
Actually it doesn't matter how many times it has been verified working properly. One single failure would be more than enough...
Hmm, has there been one single failure of a human driver hitting a child?
That is the difference between an accident and murder.
If you try your best to adhere to all best practices, and still a bad thing happens, that is an entirely 100% different thing from the bad thing that happens when you voluntarily, deliberately, knowingly, do something wrong or unnecessary, and then a bad thing happens.
Re: An open letter to the Tesla fan who wants to run over a kid
#56The 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.
It's a way of getting publicity. Seems to have worked for Musk and Trump.
Re: An open letter to the Tesla fan who wants to run over a kid
#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Musk has that quality that Steve Jobs had - the so-called RDF or "Reality Distortion Field". Proximity to Musk seems to scramble a lot of people's minds and thought processes.
It kind of worked for those two because they made good stuff - iPhone, cars, rockets etc. You can get away with saying this will be great if you deliver occasionally.
Re: An open letter to the Tesla fan who wants to run over a kid
#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hmm, has there been one single failure of a human driver hitting a child?
That is the difference between an accident and murder. If you try your best to adhere to all best practices, and still a bad thing happens, that is an entirely 100% different thing from the bad thing that happens when you voluntarily, deliberately, knowingly, do something wrong or unnecessary, and then a bad thing happens.
So the AI driver knowingly, deliberately decides to murder children?
Re: An open letter to the Tesla fan who wants to run over a kid
#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
That is the difference between an accident and murder. If you try your best to adhere to all best practices, and still a bad thing happens, that is an entirely 100% different thing from the bad thing that happens when you voluntarily, deliberately, knowingly, do something wrong or unnecessary, and then a bad thing happens.
So the AI driver knowingly, deliberately decides to murder children?
get a new pharmacist