A group campaigning to get Tesla's 'Full Self-Driving' (FSD) AI banned has claimed that Elon Musk's vehicles are a danger to children.
A video shared by tech safety engineer Dan O'Dowd shows a Tesla car repeatedly running over a child-sized mannequin on a racetrack, with a voiceover calling for the software to be banned.
In the video, O'Dowd points out that 100,000 Tesla drivers are already using Full Self-Driving on public roads and calls it "the worst commercial software I've ever seen."
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'Full Self-Driving' or Autopilot is an AI-powered software in Tesla cars which lets them drive themselves around without input from a driver. However, the software is currently not finished and drivers must sit at the steering wheel and supervise at all times.
O'Dowd's video was based on tests on a racetrack using a Tesla Model 3 (2019) with the latest Full Self-Driving Software.
The test was "designed to simulate a realistic life-and-death situation in which everyday motorists frequently find themselves: a small child walking across the road."
The Dawn Project claims that the vehicle drove straight down two rows of cones and hit the child-sized mannequin with 'no input or interference from the test driver'.
Following the campaign, Dan O'Dowd has called Elon Musk a 'master scammer' on Twitter and accused him of promising a lot while delivering little.
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However, Musk fans have claimed that the video is a 'scam', arguing that the self-driving Autopilot feature isn't even activated in the footage used in the video.
Musk himself hit back at the video saying it was the work of 'Real Scam O'Dowd'. When The Guardian covered of the clip, Musk wrote: "'The Guardian' swallows scam video hook, line, and sinker!"
He then shared claims that Full Self-Driving mode was never activated in the test.
The Dawn Project hit back, saying that they have a sworn statement from the driver claiming they activated FSD, and posted an additional (unverified) clip of the test.
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