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... The self-proclaimed self-driving gadfly posted a video this week showing a staged event in which a Tesla running the latest version of its self-driving software illegally overtook a school bus with its red lights flashing (indicating it is dropping off passengers) and then slammed into a child-sized mannequin emerging from the sidewalk. The car identified the pedestrian, but didn't stop after hitting it and carried on down the road.

To be fair to Tesla, a human driver would have had problems stopping in time to avoid the dummy, although one would hope that a human driver would have noticed the lights and stopped as legally required. However, the software running the car -- FSD (Supervised) 13.2.9 -- did not. (FSD originally for "full self-driving," but as the parenthetical now denotes, Tesla's own documentation has always said that the driver should be supervising at all times.)

The Dawn Project has its own agenda. It was founded by software entrepreneur Dan O'Dowd to highlight the dangers of Tesla's self-driving claims when matched with reality. O'Dowd, who owns several Teslas himself -- including original Roadster models -- has been sounding concerns about the software for years. ...