YouTuber Mark Rober has kicked the hornet's nest with his latest video. But are Tesla fanboys right mistakes were made?

In the piece — titled “Can You Fool a Self Driving Car?” — Rober found that a Tesla car on Autopilot was fooled by a Wile E. Coyote-style wall painted to look like the road ahead of it, with the electric vehicle plowing right through it instead of stopping.

The footage was damning enough, with slow-motion clips showing the car not only crashing through the styrofoam wall but also a mannequin of a child. The Tesla was also fooled by simulated rain and fog.

  • octopus_ink@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    7 hours ago

    (“ha, try putting a vacuum lidar in a car and see if it can do anything useful outside at the speeds & range a car needs”).

    Because no one suggested that.

    • racemaniac@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      1 hour ago

      So someone saying “why does my 500$ vacuum have a lidar but not the car” isn’t suggesting that?

      I guess in some technical way you’re right, but it for sure is the implication…