Watch how a Tesla in autopilot mode avoids plowing into a group of ducks crossing the road

[nodolra]

@faithnomore

why the hell is the Tesla cruising in the passing lane?

From the video description:

Occurred on November 11, 2019 / Gisborne, New Zealand

New Zealand has left-hand traffic, right?

[DukeTrout]

Good catch!

Edit: If it had been observing shitty lane discipline like most Americans, then it never would have had to make the emergency maneuver!

[euansmith]

I’m pretty certain that everything in the world is Plan B at best.

@nodolra

New Zealand has left-hand traffic, right?

That’s because of the Coriolis Effect, right?

[Brainspore]

@Textuality

Would be fascinating to know what it would have done if there was a car just slightly up the road on the other side. Or for that matter, a pushbike.

Or another duck (which would make the Trolley Problem metaphor more applicable).

[Brainspore]

@hecep

Note to self: Wear duck costume when walking outside (but not while in the woods).

That just introduces a whole new set of complicating variables. For example, what season is it?

[DukeTrout]

Fudd Season!

[roomwithaview]

@Tamsin_Bailey

Run it over.
Ducks can’t write, so it stole the cancer cure notes from somewhere.
Criminal duck dies, Poland is safe, cancer is cured and you have dinner.

YAS QUEEN!

(you win the intarweebs today!)

[hecep]

@DukeTrout

You’re safe from duck hunters if you’re in the woods. It’s when you’re on the water (river, lake, estuary, swamp) where it is perilous to look like a duck.

New note to self.

[DukeTrout]

Of course, I say that, but on any given weekend, I’m doing this:

http://wildernesslitefloattubes.com/uploads/3/4/5/7/34570813/edited/image1_1.jpeg

[hecep]

No ducks for Duke dat day!

[FGD135]

@Brainspore

That just introduces a whole new set of complicating variables.

And then some.

Hacking street signs with stickers could confuse self-driving cars

[sarc]

still waiting for operation deer method

[Purplecat]

@gelfin

But suppose in the other lane there is an extremely fat duck

Then you stop and eat an extremely strange, but extremely good meal:

The Fat Duck

[phiis161803]

Correct

File:Countries driving on the left or right.svg - Wikipedia
Blue = left hand side
Red = right hand side
(I happen to be reading about driving laws recently )

[Tamsin_Bailey]

Is this a game of “Spot the Former British Colony”?
Cheating Americans…

[PsiPhiGrrrl]

I admire anyone who catches a fish on its own turf. It’s gotta be very different from reeling 'em in while standing on the deck of a boat.

[Aleqi]

Birds aren’t real.

[orenwolf]

@Tamsin_Bailey

Is this a game of “Spot the Former British Colony”?
Cheating Americans…

Canada says Hi.

[GulliverFoyle]

@DukeTrout

It’s when you’re on the water (river, lake, estuary, swamp) where it is perilous to look like a duck.

Run a fowl?

[Davet]

Is this a game of “Spot the Former British Colony”?
Cheating Americans…

And Japan is in the set for different reasons.