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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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[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 91 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (5 children)

It costs too much. It's also why you have to worry about panels falling off the swastitruck if you park next to them. They also apparently lack any sort of rollover frame.

He doesn't want to pay for anything, including NHTSB crash tests.

It's literally what Drumpf would have created if he owned a car company. Cut all costs, disregard all regulations, and make the public the alpha testers.

[–] bstix@feddit.dk 21 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

The panels are glued on. The glue fails when the temperature changes.

I can't believe that this car is legal to drive in public.

[–] zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 8 points 12 hours ago

Right? It's also got a cast aluminum frame that breaks if you load the trailer hitch with around 10,000 lbs of downward force. Which means that the back of your Cybertruck could just straight up break off if you've frontloaded your trailer and hit a pothole wrong.

[–] Zahille7@lemmy.world 3 points 12 hours ago

Only in America

[–] Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 9 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, that’s not very typical, I’d like to make that point.

[–] frostysauce@lemmy.world 4 points 13 hours ago

The ~~front~~ back fell off.

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 31 points 20 hours ago

it did cost too much at the time, but currently he doesnt want to do it because he would have to admit hes wrong.

[–] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 23 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

The guy bankrupted a casino, not by playing against it and being super lucky, but by owning it. Virtually everything he has ever touched in business has turned to shit. How do you ever in the living fuck screwup stakes at Costco? My cousin with my be good eye and a working elbow could do it.

And now its the country's second try. This time unhinged, with all the training wheels off. The guy is stepping on the pedal while stripping the car for parts and giving away the fuel. The guy doesn't even drive, he just fired the chauffeur and is dismantling the car from the inside with a shot gun...full steam ahead on to a nice brick wall and an infinity cliff ready to take us all with him. And Canada and Mexico and Gina. Three and three quarters of a year more of daily atrocities and law breakage. At least Hitler boy brought back the astronauts.

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 14 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

I was mostly lambasting fElon, not Drumpf. You're correct on Drumpf though. I was discussing the swastitruck, after all. Drumpf showed that he's scared to drive any of the swasticars when he pretended to know how to sell anything, much less an EV.

Oh, and Drumpf bankrupted 3-4 casinos in the late '80s to early '90s in Atlantic City, NJ. Literally the golden age of AC casinos.

[–] Maiq@lemy.lol 13 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

It's all money laundering for russian mob/fsb. Still pretty hard to bankrupt a business that basically prints $$$ though. Epic levels of incompetence!

[–] GeeDubHayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 17 hours ago

Not enough. Go on to do it four more times.

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 12 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

basically like oceangates stockton.

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 10 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

I mean, I haven't ever heard of his father referring to Stockton as "retarded," according to his teachers and professors, the way that I absolutely have heard about both Drumpf and fElon.

Other than that, yeah. Bullshit techbro shit, and landleech shit.

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 2 points 20 hours ago

stockton california is named after family.

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 1 points 18 hours ago

But without the happy ending.