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Re:An open letter to the Tesla fan who wants to run over a kid by CaliforniaKarl on Friday August 12, 2022 @07:50PM (#32445360)
The Twitter post in question (https://twitter.com/wholemarsblog/status/1557112809132945408) says “(this is a serious request)”.

Fine, then let’s treat it like a serious request. Apparently someone volunteered a child (https://twitter.com/wholemarsblog/status/1557206098876194816, presumably their own child).

Has this (pseudonymous) person done a proper study workup? This is a proposal to put a child into a potentially life-threatening situation. I hope they’ve written up (and had reviewed) the rationale for why this can’t be simulated first. And I hope they’ve gotten the snapshot of the Tesla software used, for reference.

And for the person who volunteered their own child, I wonder if they should be talking to CPS right now.

The person who made the Twitter post mentioned the Bay Area. If they are serious, try going to a place like the Center for Automotive Research at Stanford, talking to the people there, and doing a study.

Re:An open letter to the Tesla fan who wants to run over a kid by CaptainZapp on Saturday August 13, 2022 @08:26AM (#32449240)
> And for the person who volunteered their own child, I wonder if they should be talking to CPS right now.

And the fan who made the request should get his driving license yanked indefinitely.

He just proved without a doubt that his character is unfit to let him drive a potentially deadly vehicle on public roads.

Re:An open letter to the Tesla fan who wants to run over a kid by kochindustries on Friday August 12, 2022 @08:10PM (#32445482)
This person is Omar Qazi, he's pretty close to Elon Musk, not just a run of the mill superfan.

See also this stuff by Aaron Greenspan. https://twitter.com/PlainSite/status/1558129429733261312?t=c...

Note: Aaron is somewhat nutty himself, kinda obsessed about this stuff.