Why are Tesla fanatics putting their children in the path of moving cars?

Some superfans are so determined to prove that Elon Musk's autonomous' driving technology works that they are willing to put their kids in harm's way

I've been a mum for a relatively short time; I'm not exactly an expert when it comes to this whole parenting thing. Still, there is one piece of advice I can confidently dole out: don't instruct your child to run in front of a moving vehicle so that you can win an argument with strangers on the internet. Elon Musk obsessives, I'm looking at you.

This month, a software CEO called Dan O'Dowd, who is hellbent on trying to ban Tesla's full self-driving" programme, launched an ad campaign claiming that if you put a Tesla in this mode it will mow down children. He based this assertion on a test he ran using a child-sized mannequin dressed in a safety vest, which came to a sticky end in the middle of a road in California.

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