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orwin
on Oct 2, 2021
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Tesla Autopilot Hits a Deer [video]
I've been in WV for a month, not encountering deers when the night falls is what's surprising. Also, a herd looking at your slow-driving car when the moon is hiding makes for a surreal vision (for some reasons, their eyes are _bright_ in the dark)
istjohn
on Oct 3, 2021
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Their eyes are so bright because they are retroreflective[1]. Just like road signs, they reflect light back in the direction it came from.
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tapetum_lucidum
m0zg
on Oct 4, 2021
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Which we should be thankful for, because otherwise they'd be _very_ hard to see as well, and a lot more people would be dying.
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