Comments by "Mikko Rantalainen" (@MikkoRantalainen) on "Tesla Autopilot kills a deer: Full Self Driving, zero accountability" video.

  1. Really, the only way for Tesla FSD to avoid hitting this or other deers is to correctly identify it as a deer and assume its suicidal in practice. Those animals do not understand what a car is, especially in darkness. I guess they think that a car is just a big animal that's going nearby so the best strategy is to try to stay silent. And when the car gets close enough, they try to start running assuming the car is an unknown predator trying to catch them. Unfortunately, unless the car is moving at speeds close to actual predators in nature, the run speed of the deer is not going to be enough to avoid the car bumber. If Teslas had IR cameras they could just assume that any warm target moving near the road in darkness is a deer. And only assume otherwise when AI can identify it as human or other non-deer animal. If you haven't seen an actual deer in darkness on a road, you just cannot understand how suicidal they can be. A fully grown moose would be another another story. They have so little real predators in nature that they don't mind about the cars either - they just assume that if the car tries to attack they can deal with the issue at that time and otherwise they can proceed with their original plan, wherever they were planning to do. A moose is actually easier for AI because once the AI can figure the movement vector of the moose it can pretty accurately calculate where the moose is going. Deers are the ones that have practically random movement and are really hard even for experienced human drivers.
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  2. And then there are the reindeers, which seem to be mixture of a deer and a moose for behavior: pretty random but not afraid of cars: https://youtu.be/YohPuALmMuA
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