OK, its just a deer, but the future is clear. These things are going to start kill people left and right.

How many kids is Elon going to kill before we shut him down? Whats the number of children we’re going to allow Elon to murder every year?

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    Drivers in rural areas are taught to hit the brakes and maintain their lane.

    Which the Tesla didn’t do. It plowed full speed into the deer, which arguably made the collision much much worse than it could have been. I doubt the thing was programmed to maintain speed into a deer. The more likely alternative is that the FSD couldn’t tell there was a deer there in the first place.

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      Braking dips the hood making it easier for the deer to go into the windshield. You should actually speed up right before hitting to make your hood go up and make it hopefully go under or better stay in the grill.

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          Right before hitting begin the keyword. If you can stop before hitting yes that’s ideal, but in situations where it jumps out and you can’t react. Braking during impact is the worst thing you can do.

          If you think I’m saying to line it up and accelerate for 200meters, I dont know what to say about that,

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            Dude, the article just said to hit the brakes “if you can’t avoid hitting a deer”, the exact scenario you described… Did you even open it?

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          I don’t know, where I live giraffes are only in the zoo and thus never on the road. I’m not aware of any escaping the zoo.

          I’m sure if I lived around wild deere, my training would include that, but since I don’t I was able to save some time by not learning that.

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              I’ve never been in a zoo I’m allowed to drive more thln e wheelchair through. They may require extra training - I would not know

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          Same for a moose? Speed up so you clear it before gravity caves your car roof.

          You maintain speed, you can’t maneuver well if braking, and as stated your hood dips while braking too which can cause worse issues.

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            The whole premise of ABS brakes, which all cars made in North America since 2012 will have, is specifically to allow you to maintain control when you fully apply the brakes. Unless you are a professional driver or have a car without ABS, you should just fully apply the brakes in an emergency stop. Please stop telling people that fully applying the brakes will reduce manueverability when it won’t for the majority of drivers in the developed world.

            And if someone’s vehicle doesn’t have ABS, they should know how to properly brake without locking their tires, and when it won’t be appropriate to use them.

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            That’s a good strategy to ensure you die: a mooses torso is already higher than the hood of a lot of SUVs, so you’re taking a moose to the face.

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              A moving vehicle in real life is a bit more complicated of an equation, factor in the car’s angle towards the horizontal as you accelerate or brake, that’s the original point, but whatever.

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            I don’t think hitting more gas is going to gently slide the 300 pound buck under my car. It’s just going to increase the impact force.

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              Considering suspension, if you accelerate there’s a lowering of the back of the car/raising of the front.

              Conversely, breaking has the opposite effect, increasing the chances of the deer rolling over your hood and through your windshield.

              You’ll want to minimize that, hence the acceleration.