[rainsford]

As a prospective Tesla customer this one test tells you that Telsa's FSD is not always able to identify or avoid objects in the road large enough to significantly damage your car in situations where humans can identify the object from a significant distance away. Running 999 other tests where there are no objects in the road does not improve your understanding of Tesla's ability to handle objects in the road. Ideally maybe you'd actually want to run 999 more tests with objects in the road to see if Tesla fails every time. If it identifies and avoids the object 99.9% of the time, then you could say this particular test was a fluke.

Now you can certainly argue that "objects in the road" is a category of failure mode you don't expect to happen often enough to care about, but it's still a technical flaw in the FSD system. I'd also argue it points to a broader problem with FSD because it doesn't seem like it should have been all that hard for the Tesla to see and avoid the object since the humans saw it in plenty of time. The fact that it didn't raises questions for me about how well the system works in general.