Bison are the largest land animals in North America and can weigh as much as 2,000 pounds, yet to a Tesla they are recognized as something else entirely.
Trent Sizemore, who conducts photography workshops in Yellowstone National Park, provided the revelation recently after driving alongside a bison herd while using his Tesla Vision feature.
“I’ve been hoping to drive by some bison to see what our Tesla sees them as,” Sizemore explained on Instagram. “Apparently, they’re people, and then large and small dogs.”
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Tesla Vision is a camera-based autopilot system used in newer models. Part of the feature helps discern the environment around vehicles.
As viewers can see, the bison are perceived as humans that, in some cases, appear to be transformed into dogs.
(Sizemore told FTW Outdoors that he was using only the visualization feature and not the self-driving mode.)
His Instagram followers were intrigued and amused and one aptly chimed in, “AI only goes so far.”
Click here to view the same footage as a Facebook Reel.