‘We Plan to Run Over the Child on Saturday:’ Elon Musk Stans Are Trying to Debunk a Tesla Full Self-Driving Safety Video

‘We Plan to Run Over the Child on Saturday:’ Elon Musk Stans Are Trying to Debunk a Tesla Full Self-Driving Safety Video

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On Tuesday, safety advocacy and research organization The Dawn Project launched a PSA campaign showcasing a Tesla in Full Self-Driving (FSD) mode repeatedly mowing down a child-sized mannequin and Tesla fans are fuming. 

The video documents a safety test conducted in California on an empty car track lane that was intended to simulate a small child walking across the road in a crosswalk, according to The Dawn Project. It shows a professional test driver bringing a Tesla to forty miles per hour and then putting it in full self-driving mode once entering a lane of cones, within one hundred yards of the mannequin. As it approaches the mannequin, the car slows down to around 26 miles per hour, but does not stop and completely plows through the figure three separate times.