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Elon's Death Machine (aka Tesla) Mows Down Deer at Full Speed , Keeps Going on "Autopilot" (jalopnik.com)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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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[–] 146 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I grew up in Maine. Deer in the road isn’t an edge case there. It’s more like a nightly occurrence.

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  • [–] 51 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Same in Kansas. Was in a car that hit one in the 80s and see them often enough that I had to avoid one that was crossing a busy interstste highway last week.

    Deer are the opposite of an edge case in the majority of the US.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    It's no different in Southern Ontario where I live. Saw a semi truck plow into one, it really wasn't pretty. Another left a huge dent on my mom's car when she hit one driving at night.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I drove through rural Arkansas at sundown once. I've never seen so many deer in my life.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    Same in northern Michigan in mid summer. And most of New England as well.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    I grew up in upstate NY so I'm no stranger to deer. This was something else. We were driving through the Winding Staircase mountain and there were hundreds of them. My wife kept screaming and grabbing my arm while I was driving until I had to stop in the middle of the (empty except for us and the deer) road to calmly explain that she was making the situation significantly worse.

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