Last week, fans of the electric car company were angry when they saw a video that compared the safety features of a Model Y to a Lexus SUV. The mannequin was bulldozed through as if it wasn't there.
It wasn't a fair representation of the electric car company's safety features, even going as far as to say that someone should put an actual child in front of a Model 3
A live child was placed in front of a moving vehicle over the weekend by the owner of the Whole Mars blog.
In a series of tests, he and others started with a number of mannequins and instructed the child of the CEO of the company to walk in front of the vehicle.
The software stopped dead in its tracks when it spotted Park's child. Park was able to get to his destination after the road was clear again.
The stunt didn't address the more substantive criticisms of self- driving tech. It's almost a given that a child will see a modern vehicle stop in broad daylight in the year 2022. It will never be possible to gauge how the car will respond in rare and chaotic edge cases, which are where self-driving accidents and deaths have mostly shown up.
Whole Mars Blog said that the tests they did showed that the self-driving car works well. There is no risk to pedestrians even if the software fails to detect them if the driver pays attention and watches the road.
The original demo video was produced by the CEO of Green Hills Software, which may have ulterior motives, according to Whole Mars.
Whole Mars said that it is not expected to be perfect. Dan O'Dowd would push misinformation to benefit himself.
It seems a lot to put actual children in the path of a car to prove a point.
The editor of The Verge pleaded with the fans of the electric car to not run over a child.
Don't put a kid's life at risk to win a fight on social media. Leave the kids out of the fight?
It actually does stop for children.
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