To start, a brief background. One of Channel 24’s previous stories, aired today, August 11, talks about testing Autopilot systems and their ability to respond to a child in the middle of the road. It turned out that Tesla ignored and knocked over the dummy three times while the Lexus car was at a standstill. Second, it is equipped with LIDAR technology, which Tesla CEO Elon Musk refuses to use in his company’s products, and which relies entirely on cameras and artificial intelligence to analyze images from them.

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Tesla fans were not happy with the disappointing test results, which video showed.

If I hit the gas, the car has to do whatever I say. It doesn’t matter if there are 100 children in front of the car,
– writes one of the users under the video.

He wasn’t the only one to express such a cruel opinion.

Why was Lexus moving slower than the Model 3? How to check if this test is legal: Put a real baby in front of Model 3 and press the accelerator,
– another writer.

Well-known Tesla fan and investor, Whole Mars Catalog, sought to develop this idea. He wrote: “Unlike LIDAR, Tesla Vision knows that a piece of cardboard is not a child”. By the way, mannequins are not made of cardboard. They were bulky and made of fabric.

After that day All Mars asked According to his 129,000 followers, is there anyone in the Bay Area with a kid who can run in front of their car and run Full Self-Driving Beta (autopilot)? He also explained that this was not a joke but a serious request. Worse, All Mars claimsthat someone voluntarily offered their child for such an experiment.