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Self-Driving Tesla Crashes into Wall Painted to Look Like a Road… Just Months Before Planned Robotaxi Launch (fuelarc.com)

submitted 2 days ago by KayLeadfoot@fedia.io to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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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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[–] jet@hackertalks.com 142 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (30 children)

Clearly we don't need lidar!

Direct video link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQJL3htsDyQ

[–] Flames5123@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I’m kinda confident that even RADAR + cameras was good enough, but they started shipping cars without it and even shutting off the RADAR in existing cars.

The main negative about LiDAR is the cost, but that’s quickly going down.

[–] Incognito@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Why did they shut off radar?

[–] Flames5123@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They don’t want to install it in the newer cars, and they don’t want to make two software versions I guess. A backup would’ve been great though…

[–] Incognito@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

Thank you!

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