YouTube removes video that tests Tesla’s Full Self-Driving beta against real kids

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CNBC reported that a video showing drivers of the electric vehicle carrying out their own safety tests to determine whether the EV's Full Self-Driving (FSD) capabilities would make it automatically stop for children walking across or standing in the road has been removed.

There is a video on Whole Mars Catalog's YouTube channel titled " DoesTesla Full-Self DrivingBeta really run over kids?" which was originally posted on the channel. Park drives a car toward one of his children standing in the road and then tries to get his other child to cross the street. The vehicle stops.

There are specific rules against content that endangers the emotional and physical well-being of minor users. The video violated its policies against harmful and dangerous content and the platform doesn't allow content showing a minor participating in dangerous activities or encouraging children to do dangerous activities, according to ElenaHernandez. The site didn't reply to the request for comment.

Park said during the now-removed video that he would trust his children's life with them. Park told CNBC that the car was never traveling more than eight miles an hour and that he was in control of the wheel so he could stop at any time.

The video had over 60,000 views. The video is still available to watch, even after it was posted to the social networking site. The site reached out to the micro-blogging site to see if it had any plans to take it down.

The crazy idea to test FSD with real living and breathing children emerged after a video and ad campaign posted to social media showed vehicles failing to detect and collide with dummies in front of them. There was a debate about the limitations of the feature on the social networking site. Whole Mars Catalog, an EV-driven Twitter and YouTube channel run by aTesla investor, may create a video with real children in order to prove the original results wrong.

The NHTSA warned against using children to test automated driving technology. The agency said that no one should risk their lives to test the performance of vehicle technology. People and children should not be used to test the performance of vehicle technology.

It is not possible for a vehicle to be fully self-sufficient. You can get it for an additional $12,000 for a monthly subscription. Drivers can input a destination and have the vehicle drive there using the ADAS if they meet a certain safety score. Drivers need to be ready to take control of the vehicle at any time.

The California Department of Motor Vehicles accusedTesla of making false claims about their products. The agency claims that the names of both features and the description of them imply that vehicles can operate autonomously.

In June of this year, the NHTSA released data about driver-assist crashes for the first time, and found that the number of crashes involving cars with autopilot increased from July 20th to May 21st of the following year. The NHTSA is currently investigating a number of incidents whereTesla vehicles using driver- assist technology collided with parked emergency vehicles and some of them have been fatal.