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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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[–] fubarx@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago (6 children)

There's a very simple solution to autonomous driving vehicles plowing into walls, cars, or people:

Congress will pass a law that makes NOBODY liable -- as long as a human wasn't involved in the decision making process during the incident.

This will be backed by car makers, software providers, and insurance companies, who will lobby hard for it. After all, no SINGLE person or company made the decision to swerve into oncoming traffic. Surely they can't be held liable. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Once that happens, Level 4 driving will come standard and likely be the default mode on most cars. Best of luck everyone else!

[–] hedge_lord@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Kids already have experience playing hopscotch, so we can just have them jump between the rooves of moving cars in order to cross the street! It will be so much more efficient, and they can pretend that they are action heroes. The ones who survive will make for great athletes too.

[–] deltapi@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

There's a reason GenX trained on hopper. Too bad the newer generations don't have something equivalent

[–] Retropunk64@lemm.ee 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

The hell is hopper? You mean frogger?

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[–] chilicheeselies@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago (4 children)

There is no way insurance companies would go for that. What is far more likely is that policies simply wont cover accidents due to autonomous systems. Im honeslty surprised they wouls cover them now.

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[–] blackluster117@sh.itjust.works 6 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Still think LIDAR is inferior to computer vision, Elon?

[–] fallingcats@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 4 months ago

That was never in question, they just went with cameras because they're dirt cheap compared to lidar.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

He never thought about it in the first place.

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[–] CPMSP@midwest.social 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] Delta_V@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

But why was there a road there?

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[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Mark Rober is about to be listed as FBI public enemy #1 :(

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[–] pjwestin@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

To be fair, the roadrunner it was following somehow successfully ran into the painting.

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