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What Does A Tesla Full Self-Driving Car See?
This doesn't really qualify as a Science Fiction in the News story, it's more personal, but I just wanted to share it. The tweet embedded below shows what Tesla cars equipped with FSD can actually "see" or encompass, and show to their drivers:
Anyone who thinks FSD isn’t safer than a human driver just needs to convince me they have this much awareness of their surroundings! 🤯 @elonmusk pic.twitter.com/HjfxFspY5F
— Sam (@SamTalksTesla) October 24, 2020
Now take a look at this example; note that the driver can pinch and turn the car's self-driving view, demonstrating that the car sees all around it:
To me, it looks uncannily like Paramahansa Yogananda's description of Cosmic Consciousness in his 1946 book Autobiography of a Yogi:
"My sense of identity was no longer narrowly confined to a body but embraced the circumambient atoms. People on distant streets seemed to be moving gently over my own remote periphery...The whole vicinity lay bare before me. My ordinary frontal vision was now changed to a vast spherical sight, simultaneously all-perceptive. Through the back of my head I saw men strolling far down Rai Ghat Lane, and noticed also a white cow that was leisurely approaching...
All objects within my panoramic gaze trembled and vibrated like quick motion pictures..."
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