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by rkomorn 265 days ago
But that's not what happened.

They saw it, called it out, and very deliberately let the car (not) deal with it because that was the point of what they were doing.

They did not "miss" anything.

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They had poor incentives. The driver wanted to only use FSD for the video which is dumb.

But it doesn’t help disprove that it’s entirely the computers fault. They could have taken action if they were a rational driver.

From my perspective I think many people would have failed to take action. Swerving or hard breaking at those speeds is very dangerous. And many things on the road like roadkill or bags can be driver over

I don't know where you're going with this.

You said the driver and car both missed it.

I say the fact that you can hear them discuss the object well before hitting it yet clearly not try to avoid it means they did not actually "miss it", which is also why my first comment in this thread was in response to the notion that "a human did hit that..."

These drivers hitting the object while intentionally not intervening does not actually provide information as to whether other drivers not running the same "experiment" would've hit it.