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Full Self Driving still regularly crashes into balloon children over-and-over again reliably, despite a huge amount of R&D since 2014 (8 years ago).

https://twitter.com/patrickmoorhead/status/14787661657237790...

Hitting the (fake) kid is SOOOOOO reliable, that Luminar used Tesla as their "crashes into dummy" car in CES 2022. IE: They're so confident that Tesla will hit that balloon child, they are using it for live in-person demos of their technology.



We just have a disagreement. I don't think that bugs in beta software means "he actively pushes forward broken products". It may still be wrong to inflict beta software on humans, but that is a separate ethical consideration.


That "beta software" costs $12,000 and has been around for 8 years and was promised to be "coast to coast full self driving" in 2015.




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