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Self-Driving Tesla Crashes into Wall Painted to Look Like a Road… Just Months Before Planned Robotaxi Launch (fuelarc.com)

submitted 14 hours ago by KayLeadfoot@fedia.io to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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Mark Rober just set up one of the most interesting self-driving tests of 2025, and he did it by imitating Looney Tunes. The former NASA engineer and current YouTube mad scientist recreated the classic gag where Wile E. Coyote paints a tunnel onto a wall to fool the Road Runner.

Only this time, the test subject wasn’t a cartoon bird… it was a self-driving Tesla Model Y.

The result? A full-speed, 40 MPH impact straight into the wall. Watch the video and tell us what you think!

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[–] KayLeadfoot@fedia.io 83 points 14 hours ago (5 children)

"But humans can do it with their eyes!" - says the man not selling a human brain to go with the optical sensors

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 2 points 4 hours ago

"But humans can do it with their eyes!"

The thing is, RADAR can see things humans can't. There was a whole article a while back about a Model X that avoided an otherwise unavoidable accident by bouncing radar under the car in front of it and seeing that car slam on the brakes.

[–] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 19 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

“But humans can do it with their eyes!”

That's the best part, they kinda can't.
There are videos from before they pulled the sensors of some pretty cool stuff where teslas slammed the breaks before anything visibly happened, based on lidar sensors sensing trouble a couple cars up the road, completely blocked to vision.

super cool safety tech, and then they pulled it....

one example here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIcC2ZMePKI

[–] Rexios@lemm.ee 6 points 4 hours ago

Pretty sure that wasn’t even lidar. It was radar which is even cheaper and pretty much every other new car has if they don’t have lidar.

[–] jet@hackertalks.com 28 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Don't give him ideas!!!

[–] elvith@feddit.org 10 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

On the internet, nobody knows you’re just a brain in a ~~jar~~ car.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Check out moneybags over here who can afford a jar car.

[–] nomy@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 hours ago

Please don't vandalize their JarCar it has my mom's brain tissue in it.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 11 points 13 hours ago

dude is living proof brains are optional

[–] BastingChemina@slrpnk.net 5 points 12 hours ago

The thing is, yes humans can do it with their eyes. But even with the giant amount of progressing power from the brain they are still not great at it.

So of the ultimate goal is to the minimum/cheapest to be almost as good as human then yes, optical sensors only are enough.

Of the goal is to prevent deaths and significantly reduce the number of accidents compared to then lidar is the best option.