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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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[–] [email protected] 152 points 1 month ago (32 children)
[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (27 children)

The actual wall is way more convincing though.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (15 children)

As much as i want to hate on tesla, seeing this, it hardly seems like a fair test.

From the perspective of the car, it's almost perfectly lined up with the background. it's a very realistic painting, and any AI that is trained on image data would obviously struggle with this. AI doesn't have that human component that allows us to infer information based on context. We can see the boarders and know that they dont fit. They shouldn't be there, so even if the painting is perfectly lines up and looks photo realistic, we can know something is up because its got edges and a frame holding it up.

This test, in the context of the title of this article, relies on a fairly dumb pretense that:

  1. Computers think like humans
  2. This is a realistic situation that a human driver would find themselves in (or that realistic paintings of very specific roads exist in nature)
  3. There is no chance this could be trained out of them. (If it mattered enough to do so)

This doesnt just affect teslas. This affects any car that uses AI assistance for driving.

Having said all that.... fuck elon musk and fuck his stupid cars.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I agree that this just isn't a realistic problem, and that there are way more problems with Tesla's that are much more realistic.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Tell that to the guy who lost his head when his Tesla thought a reflective semi truck was the sky

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Well that seems like a realistic problem. Not picture of tunnel

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

It’s the same issue, the car not being able to detect a solid object in front of it because of an optical illusion

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