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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.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (18 children)

What would definitely help with the discussion is if Mark Rober the scientist left a fucking crumb of scientific approach in his video. He didn’t really explain how he was testing it just slam car into things for views. This and a collaboration with a company that makes lidar made the video open to every possible criticism and it’s a shame.

Discovery channel level of dumbed down „science”.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (10 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I fucking hate tesla and elon musk. Also I fucking hate people calling unverifiable shit science

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Well, it was published, up to you to do a peer review I guess!

Also, this isn't needing science, it blatantly shows that things does infact not function as intended.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Just fyi, they used AEB in one car and cruise control in another. Far from even. I think it was a fail from the start considering they couldn’t get AEB to even fire on the Tesla driving without cruise control. Insane

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Were is a robust description of the experiment? Or am I supposed to look frame by frame at the screen in the car to deduce the testing conditions?

All he had to do was tell us clearly what is enabled on each car and what his inputs are. That would solve all the tesla fanbois comments about him cheating. Maybe he didn’t for „engagement”.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

You're upset that made up people in your head called this video a research project or something? Because the closest thing I could find to what you're complaining about is his YouTube channel's description where it says "friend of science".

He never claimed to be a scientist, doesn't claim to be doing scientific research. In his own words, he's just doing some tests on his own car. That's it.

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