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Do you like your car?
How much do you like your car?
Would you potentially drive your car toward a child to prove that your car is the best, safest car on the market?
If the answer is no, you have successfully passed the “normal person” test that Whole Mars Catalog, a “24 hour EV news channel” that also claims to be a “part shitty stand up comedy routine” has failed. You see, for the past day or two, WMC (I am not going to type their name out again) has been fighting a battle against reports that the radar-less electric vehicle the Tesla Model Y is failing to notice child-sized objects during its autonomous “Full Self-Driving” mode.
And when I say “fighting a battle,” I mean “attempting to create a scenario in which somebody driving a Tesla drives their Tesla toward a child. It all began with a simple request: does anybody have a child in the Bay Area they wouldn’t mind running in front of WMC’s car?
One might believe that this was satire — a way of mocking equally insane and inane zealotry of Elon Musk’s fanboys — if it weren’t for how many times he has doubled, tripled and quadrupled down on the fact that not only is he serious that he needs to try and run over a child, but that in attempting to do so his beliefs will be edified. He will be proven right.
If you’re wondering what point he’s attempting to prove, it’s because the point itself is incredibly murky. From what I can tell, WMC is attempting to prove that yes, a Tesla…
