Video: Tesla films hitting a deer with FSD, doesn’t even brake

A video has recently gone viral showing a Tesla car hitting a deer on a highway at night. The driver was fine, which is more than can be said about the deer.

According to the owner of the car, he had FSD (Full Self-Driving) on and was moving at a high speed. The electronics completely failed to detect the animal crossing the road and went straight for the collision. Even after the impact, the car proceeded to go on with its front end smashed, apparently oblivious of the crash.

Many media and industry professionals have since commented the footage, putting the blame on Tesla’s decision not to use any radars or LiDARs in its self-driving hardware suite. Elon Musk’s insistence on using exclusively cameras is not working out so well, it seems.