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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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[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 87 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (57 children)

This is a very good test, and the car should have past. That said though, I hate the click bait format where they show a stupidly obvious cartoonish wall, when the real wall is way more convincing.

The Video:

That sort of clickbait is 100% sure to get a "do not recommend channel" from me, I'm so sick of it. And it's sad when the video has such a good point.

The Clickbait

I can see it's kind of funny, but it's misleading.

[–] Maestro@fedia.io 46 points 10 hours ago (21 children)

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

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

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[–] Xbeam@lemmy.world 4 points 6 hours ago (4 children)

You shouldn't judge a book by its cover.

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[–] Ghyste@sh.itjust.works 246 points 12 hours ago (24 children)

I seem to recall that fElon prevented the self driving team from utilizing LIDAR for any part of the system, instead demanding that everything run off of optical input. Does anyone else remember the same?

[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 151 points 12 hours ago (4 children)

Was just thinking this

A single LiDAR sensor prevents this kind of issue

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[–] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 52 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (4 children)

What's cool is that Teslas used to have radar sensors, at least, but Elon removed them from production to save money. Even if you have a car from back then, the software no longer uses them and they'll just physically unplug them the next time you have the car serviced, as it's just a drain on the battery at this point 🙃

[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 27 points 9 hours ago

meanwhile our subaru has lidar for adaptive cruise control and emergency braking

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[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 29 points 9 hours ago
[–] rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Well, I guess we know how to defeat Teslas.

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[–] RobotZap10000@feddit.nl 131 points 13 hours ago (26 children)
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[–] jewbacca117@lemmy.world 99 points 13 hours ago (12 children)

I read something a while back from a guy while wearing a T-shirt with a stop sign on it, a couple robotaxies stopped in front of him. It got me thinking you could cause some chaos walking around with a speed limit 65 shirt.

[–] audaxdreik@pawb.social 46 points 11 hours ago

I think one of my favorite examples was using simple salt to trap them within the confines of white lines that they didn't think they could cross over. I really appreciate the imagery of using salt circles to entrap the robotic demons ...

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