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

submitted 9 months ago by whydudothatdrcrane@lemmy.ml to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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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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[+] rumba@lemmy.zip -55 points 9 months ago (55 children)

Vacuum doesn't run outdoors and accidentally running into a wall doesn't generate lawsuits.

But, yes, any self-driving cars should absolutely be required to have lidar. I don't think you could find any professional in the field that would argue that lidar is the proper tool for this.

[–] rmuk@feddit.uk 64 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (54 children)

...what is your point here, exactly? The stakes might be lower for a vacuum cleaner, sure, but lidar - or a similar time-of-flight system - is the only consistent way of mapping environmental geometry. It doesn't matter if that's a dining room full of tables and chairs, or a pedestrian crossing full of children.

[+] rumba@lemmy.zip -74 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (53 children)

I think you're suffering from not knowing what you don't know.

Let me make it a but clearer for you to make a fair answer.

Take a .25mw lidar sensor off a vacuum, take it outdoors and scan an intersection.

Will that laser be visible to the sensor?

is it spinning fast enough to track a kid moving in to an intersection when you're traveling at 73 feet per second?

[–] PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The price of lidar sensors has dropped by like 50 times since musk decided to cut costs by eliminating theny from their cars.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 1 points 8 months ago

Yeah looks like it, chinese sensors are down to 700 a pop. Even if it's a few grand, it's decent, looks like chevy offers it on 7 models.

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