I did hit a deer in Wyoming once as well, although I did brake hard. Still $5K in repair costs, but at least I didn't total the car. The situation is not easy e

I did hit a deer in Wyoming once as well, although I did brake hard. Still $5K in repair costs, but at least I didn't total the car. The situation is not easy even for human driver TBH - deer is not something you routinely encounter on the roads, so for a split second your brain simply doesn't know what to do. Then you realize you have to brake but still think it might run the other way, which it could show the intention of doing, so you don't brake as hard as you should. But the dumb animal seems to be startled by the headlights, so it will run right in front of your car at the last moment, which is what it did in my case. Knowing what I know about computer vision (which is quite a bit), this is actually one of the simpler problems they have to solve, which is why I think it'll be solved and what you're seeing here is just a data bug. Not enough animals in the training set.