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Tesla wants anti-self-driving car video taken down

Tesla sent a cease-and-desist letter to an advocacy group critical of self-driving vehicles after it posted a video showing a Tesla car running over a child-sized mannequin.

The video commercial, produced by the Dawn Project and tweeted earlier this month, shows Telsa’s automated cars running over the mannequins at speeds of up to 20mph.

The criticism of Tesla’s self-driving technology, which is still in the “beta” testing phase, spurred a storm of praise from critics and scorn from Tesla fans.

“You’re a biased moron, Dan. Training data is based on real life, not your fake garbage ‘test.