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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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[–] Maestro@fedia.io 46 points 10 hours ago (4 children)

Have you heard of DeArrow? https://dearrow.ajay.app/

It's a browser extension that replaces clickbait thumbnails with good community sourced ones

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Still supports a creator pulling clickbait.
The only way is to vote with views/retention.

[–] Zink@programming.dev 6 points 6 hours ago

The only way is to vote with views/retention.

Want to guess why they are there in the first place?

I hate it too, but it’s mostly one of those “we can’t have nice things because of other people around us” situations.

[–] Chip_Rat@lemmy.world 13 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

But it only supports them if their video is then also good. I don't like clickbait, because I don't want to be tricked into my monkey brain looking at something. I do want to see good videos.

Just yesterday the algorithm found some guy doing tech videos. I watched a few of them and then sent a text to a friend who I thought would like it. He asked for a link so I pulled the guys channel up on my phone, and holy smokes, clickbait. If I hadn't seen the videos already I wouldn't have given that guy the time of day. But they are well thought out, interesting videos.

I'm not here to correct the world's poor behaviour. I'm here to watch good videos. De-arrow does a good job of that, it's quite interesting to see YouTube on a computer without it vs what I'm used to now.

[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 11 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Blame the youtube algorithm and Mr Beast, not all the other youtubers caught up in the tidal wave.

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 9 points 7 hours ago

Yeah they do it because it works. I've seen several who make otherwise good content talk about it in their videos and make comments about how stupid it is bit they basically have to to be competitive.

[–] melfie@lemmings.world 1 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

I don’t see a problem with thumbnails that accurately portray the contents of the video, since only a small number of characters can fit in the title and a screenshot of one frame from the video doesn’t say much, so it can be difficult to get a sense for the video at a glance otherwise. I do get really annoyed with thumbnails that are deceptive in any way. If the thumbnail seems like it might be deceptive, I’ll usually read the comments before watching the video, or quickly scroll through it to see if it’s BS or not. Sometimes, the thumbnail advertises something that happens at the end of a 20 minute video that could’ve been 30s, in which case, I’ll scroll usually through to the end instead of watching the whole thing. If it weren’t for the thumbnail, though, I might not have watched it all.

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 0 points 8 hours ago

yeah but if you share it with people, they'll still see the clickbait thumbnail, and that's the actual problem