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Self-Driving Tesla Crashes into Wall Painted to Look Like a Road… Just Months Before Planned Robotaxi Launch (fuelarc.com)
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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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[–] paraphrand 21 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I remember there being claims from him or his team about lidar being a dead end that would not scale as well as computer vision.

[–] IphtashuFitz 24 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I believe he claimed that since humans use their vision to drive that computer vision was more than enough.

I don’t know about you, but I also rely on sounds & feel when I drive. I also know that the human eye has evolved to detect motion, filter out extraneous information, and send just the important bits to the brain so that it doesn’t get overloaded with everything the eye sees. Computer vision is the exact opposite from that, having to process every bit of every image the camera sees.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago

I also know of many times my vision fails. Driving into a sunrise for example

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

since humans use their vision to drive that computer vision was more than enough

Surprised he didn't swap out the wheels with legs while he was at it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago

o p t i m u s

[–] JimVanDeventer 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I don’t know about you, but I also rely on sounds & feel when I drive.

Of course. When I feel myself driving into a wall, I stop immediately.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

You must connect with the road, every km or so stop and hug the asphalt.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

Yep! That's what I'm thinking of. It was Elmo. The real engineers objected.