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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 9 months ago by KayLeadfoot@fedia.io to c/technology@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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[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 14 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I am very glad that Elon and Trump have overreached and now Tesla is suffering. I hope Starlink is the next domino to fall.

[–] Atmoro@lemmy.world 14 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yup plus the European Union is making their alternative to launch in a year or 2

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 11 points 9 months ago

Good.

I'm not rooting for America to fail, but I'm 100% rooting for Elon to fail.

[–] Jeffool@lemmy.world 14 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (5 children)

This would be hilarious if it weren't for shitty cars causing deaths.

That said, I always wondered why we don't find a system like RFID that could penetrate concrete and asphalt, and plant passive receivers in roads? We re-pave roads so damn often in this country (the U.S.) it seems like we could've knocked it out in the past couple of decades, minus our most rural areas.

I know RFID itself isn't strong enough, but I imagine that would've been an easier problem than figuring our complete self driving. Not to mention making GPS a secondary system for U.S. road travel in most cases.

Maybe it's just a dumb shower thought?

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[–] Polderviking@feddit.nl 13 points 9 months ago

I remember elon saying something along the lines of his camera system being just as good and they thusly don't need to employ things like LIDAR.

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Mark Rober's video of the six tests (the remaining section is about mapping Space Mountain as Mark wanted to do since he was a kid)

The wall looking like a road test

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[–] Teal@lemm.ee 11 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Beep beep! Damn things are using ACME LiDAR!

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[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 10 points 9 months ago

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