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News: dies after being run over by a Tesla in autopilot mode. Was carrying a weird printout.

Tesla will not pay anything: “he was deliberately hiding from cameras”.

If you're paranoid enough to wear that kind of clothing, you'd probably be paranoid enough to assume most drivers are distracted morons as well - and add accordingly.

(I still found the comment amusing!)

Well, yes, possibly.

However, it may turn out to be a canvas of "art", who knows?

I didn't find any paranoia in the parent/above comment. I think it is a very realistic possibility.

Many auto pilots, certainly Tesla's, work by using cameras. And, if you do fool cameras then the car might indeed kill you. Hell, they have a hard time keeping in the lane already - a couple of people have already died. Imagine what will happen if you fool it - OOPSE

And, if it goes to court, whoever has more expensive lawyer wins.

Also, just because someone's paranoid doesn't mean they're wrong.

My point was that if you're a certain level of paranoid then you might also be above average aware of your surroundings - so it wouldn't matter if a self driving system went awry, or someone was on their phone.

>If you're paranoid enough to wear that kind of clothing

The interesting thing is, for me: what if the printout is not made with the specific purpose of avoid recognition, just a a weird, colorful, hippie cloth and garments that AI struggle with.

That's my main worry with Tesla not using LIDAR as a backup. Sure, the image recognition will work in almost all the cases, but occasionally (hopefully very rarely) there is going to be a pattern that it might not recognize (either deliberate by an attacker, or occurring naturally).

hahaha :) you are funny

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