Tesla ignores pedestrians – users advocate full autonomy

There is always criticism of Tesla’s Full Self-Driving. In San Francisco, the system has now ignored a pedestrian in a crosswalk. A Twitter user defended the behavior.

Elon Musk would rather announce today than tomorrow that cars can finally drive fully. At least he’s lying Tesla with names like “Autopilot” or “Driving yourself full(FSD) previously. However, both systems are far from self-driving and are often criticized. But some users defend the driving assistant against all criticism, even if a pedestrian is almost injured.

That’s exactly what happened in San Francisco, California, according to a video posted to Twitter by user Whole Mars Catalogue. The clip was taken from inside a Model 3 or Model Y. It shows a woman entering a zebra crossing 18 to 25 meters in front of an electric car. The app recognizes the pedestrian right away, but it doesn’t do as well as one would expect.

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Because instead of applying the brakes and letting the woman cross the road, as is necessary at the zebra crossing (also in California), Tesla continued on the journey. Only a few meters were missing from that electric car he would beat the woman. But not only that, the Twitter user “Whole Mars Catalogue” also praises the complete independent operation of his response.

“One of the most exciting things I’ve seen in Tesla Full Self-Driving Beta 11.4.1,” the Twitter user wrote. “It detected a pedestrian, but instead of hitting the brakes, it just drove past like a human because it had enough time to do so.” enter the zebra crossing before completely crossing the intersection.