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Tesla Fans Furious at Video of Tesla Crashing Into Wall Painted Like Road (futurism.com)

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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 day 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] 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)

Okay, but what would you like him to elaborate on, other than showing you that the Tesla is fooled by a road runner type mural, fog and dense rain?

How much more info other than just "car didn't stop" (where other car did stop) do you need to be convinced this is a problem?

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

Did he enable the autopilot? When? What his inputs to the car were? Is if fsd? What car is that?

You can make every car hit a wall, that is the obvious part, but by claiming (truthfully, I have no doubt) that the car hit it on its own I would like to know what made it do it.

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

He said after the first of the 5 tests that every tesla test has autopilot on because some features are only enabled then

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

You didn't watch the video did you? He address that after the first test and said all further test will be done with self driving on.

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