If you watch the video, the human non-drivers in the car noticed the road debris and could have reacted, but seemed not to because they were waiting for the computer to respond first.

They were testing FSD so I understand why they would do it. It also looked like roadkill and didn't expect it to be a hard obstacle.

You are correct that they were testing the system, so they probably waited too long to react. But Tesla’s car didn’t do well in this incident

A competent human driver would instinctively slow down, look at the potential obstruction, and think about changing lanes or an emergency stop.

Most probably, the visible object is just some water spilled on the road or that kind of thing. But if it isn’t then it’s very dangerous

This car appeared to be blind to any risk. That’s not acceptable

Heh, just yesterday I drove past some roadkill and wondered what a self-driving car would make of that. Then I started wondering how it would handle deer crossing the road 50 years ahead, or running alongside the vehicle as they sometimes do when they get spooked. Or how it would handle the way people drive down the center of gravel roads until they meet someone, and then move over.

At 56, I don't expect to see it on country roads in my lifetime, but maybe someday they'll get there.

> It’s an accident that could also happen to an inattentive human driver. (Ask me how I know :( )

Anything "could" happen, but it would take an inordinately inattentive driver to be this bad.

They had 7-8 seconds of staring and talking about the debris before hitting it (or perhaps more, the video starts the moment the guy says "we got eh, a something", but possibly he saw it some instants before that).

So a person would need to be pretty much passed out to not see something with so much time to react.

Yes, but we want self-driving cars to be better than that, or there’s no need for them