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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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[–] madcaesar@lemmy.world 121 points 17 hours ago (27 children)

My 500$ robot vacuum has LiDAR, meanwhile these 50k pieces of shit don't 😂

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[–] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 41 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

It's a highly questionable approach that has raised concerns over Tesla trying to evade guilt by automatically turning off any possibly incriminating driver assistance features before a crash.

So, who's the YouTuber that's gonna test this out? Since Elmo has pushed his way into the government in order to quash any investigation into it.

[–] bay400@thelemmy.club 10 points 11 hours ago

It basically already happened in the Mark Rober video, it turns off by itself less than a second before hitting

[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 22 points 14 hours ago (11 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

[–] TorJansen@sh.itjust.works 4 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, the Roadrunner could easily skip by such barriers, frustrating the Coyote to no end. Tesla is not a Roadrunner.

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[–] Banana@sh.itjust.works 35 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

And the president is driving one of these?

Maybe we should be purchasing lots of paint and cement blockades...

[–] LeninOnAPrayer@lemm.ee 16 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

When he was in the Tesla asking if he should go for a ride I was screaming "Yes! Yes Mr. President! Please! Elon, show him full self driving on the interstate! Show him full self driving mode!"

[–] Chewget@lemm.ee 18 points 17 hours ago (4 children)

The president can't drive by law unless on the grounds of the White House and maybe Camp David. At least while in office. They might be allowed to drive after leaving office...

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (4 children)

This isn't true at all. I can't tell if you're being serious or incredibly sarcastic, though.

The reason presidents (and generally ex presidents, too) don't drive themselves is because the kind of driving to escape an assassination attempt is a higher level of driving and training than what the vast majority of people ever have. There's no law saying presidents are forbidden from driving.

In any case, I would be perfectly happy if they let him drive a CT and it caught fire. I'd do a little jib, and I wouldn't care who sees that.

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[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 14 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (2 children)

I don't think Trump can drive. As in, he doesn't even know what the pedals do.

[–] beirdobaggins@lemmy.world 10 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

clearly knows what he is doing

[–] Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 10 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

He looks like he's making the siren sounds and having a great time

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[–] Ulrich_the_Old@lemmy.ca 30 points 18 hours ago

If you own a tesla or a cybertruck you deserve it.

[–] Cantaloupe877@lemmy.world 40 points 20 hours ago (3 children)
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[–] mrodri89@lemmy.zip 59 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

If you get any strong emotions on material shit when someone makes a video...you have 0 of my respect. Period.

[–] doomcanoe@sh.itjust.works 17 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

Saw a guy smash a Stradivarius on video once. definitely had strong emotions on that one.

Really torn up about not having your respect tho...

[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 8 points 16 hours ago

I think you could argue that that's not just material stuff though. That's historical and significant culturally.

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