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

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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] 36 points 1 week ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (10 children)

To be fair, if you were to construct a wall and paint it exactly like the road, people will run into it as well. That being said, tesla shouldn't rely on cameras

Edit: having just watched the video, that was a very obvious fake wall. You can see the outlines of it pretty well. I'm also surprised it failed other tests when not on autopilot, seems pretty fucking dangerous.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

The video does bring up human ability too with the fog test ("Optically, with my own eyes, I can no longer see there's a kid through this fog. The lidar has no issue.") But, as they show, this wall is extremely obvious to the driver.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 days ago (1 children)

The tesla would lose its shit if it sees this

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

They already have trouble enough with trucks carrying traffic lights, or with speed limit stickers on them.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago

and fire trucks. and little kids. and, uh, lots of things really.

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