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True, but I suspect a human driver would take a moment to assess the situation instead of just continuing on confidently.

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If so, why didn't they tap the brake?

I suspect the driver, based on their commentary in the video, was trying to see if this was a one-off fluke or something more consistent (they mention the car already blew through that light once before).

I would hope a driver using FSD or any other system like it would be alert/aware to intervene...but for this video, it looks like they were trying to see how the car would react.

They could have run that same test at like 5-10 mph and accomplished the same thing without possibly causing an accident.

This entirely feels like a manufactured scenario since they simply did not act like a informed driver, and decided to freak out.

Are you stating that they did not have FSD on and simply faked it for the views?

I'm insinuating they they knew they were approaching an intersection that they knew FSD had trouble with, purposefully did not slow down the cruise control to attempt a safe approach, and purposefully did not tap the brakes even when it was obvious the car was not stopping or slowing down in a safe manner, and then reacted on camera insinuating it was entirely surprising to them.

If none of this is true, than they are incredibly shitty drivers that were not paying attention to what was happening and let the car cruise through a red light. The exact same scenario would have occurred with a standard 1990 era cruise control system.

Well duh they're shitty drivers with no respect for a public road, they bought Tesla "full self driving" """beta""" and are testing it against unwilling other drivers!

"They're a bad person so this must be fake", or maybe they're a bad person which is exactly why they thought doing something like this is okay

I agree with your first paragraph. They tested the red light issue after experiencing it to make sure it was not a fluke. Their yelling was unnecessary.

You're saying the driver decided to experiment with this rather than following the law?

...yes? It's pretty clear from the video this was done as a "test." The article mentions the drivers experience working on FSD and they have a YouTube page dedicated to stuff like this linked in the article.

So the test involved letting the car go at 30mph through a live intersection, not taking any emergency steps such as checks notes stepping on the brake when approaching the red light at 25mph, and then cursing about it afterwards and STILL not making any attempts to correct it?

Unfortunately, yeah, seems that way...just like you said "they chose to do nothing" and luckily no one was in/approaching the intersection.

Look I'm all for knowing this information, that something like this can happen. But to be clear, in no way do I condone how it was done. This seems reckless for the sake of clicks.

For the same reason they shouted in fake surprise anger, despite clearly anticipating this would happen.

Not true. This is very obviously a red light for that lane.

There is a green light literally right next to it. I was also initially confused as to which lane either was pointing at. They are not offset angle wise very much.

In general I agree, but yesterday I saw a car blow through a stop sign at an intersection and then honk at the cars going perpendicularly through the intersection (they had no stop signs) :/ people are pretty happy to be confidently wrong.

And that's fine, but if you had a button to sell that exact person's driving to everyone as "full self driving", and you pressed it, I hope you understand most people would consider that a problem.

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