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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 4 months ago by KayLeadfoot@fedia.io to c/nottheonion@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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[–] Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.org 1 points 4 months ago

TIL Mark Rober is a domestic terrorist

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

This is what happens when you don't lidar

[–] thespcicifcocean@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

So to stop robotaxis, all we have to do is paint a fake road directly into a rock wall with a painted on tunnel.

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[–] Coreidan@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Tesla is trash.

Fuck Elon musk.

[–] guynamedzero@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Youtube mad scientist

Okay come on, Styropyro fits the bill way better for “mad scientist”

[–] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago

Styropyro genuinely has a screw loose, explosions and fire also fits the bill. And he's Australian.

[–] swizzlestick@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

NurdRage ticks the box for me. Also NileRed before he moved out of a garage lab. Still cool though.

[–] XTL@sopuli.xyz 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Yes! Also Photonic Induction, maybe. Big Clive would be hard to label mad, though some of his experiments are in pretty interesting territory.

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[–] KayLeadfoot@fedia.io 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Aw come on, I thought the lasers versus watermelons demo was a lot of fun, and if that isn't mad science, I don't know what is

[–] guynamedzero@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 months ago

Don't get me wrong, I love Mark, but his content is kind of, tailored to the masses, you know what I mean? Fun stuff you can do at home! A mad scientist might do something more insane, such as connect 100 car batteries together to rival the power of lightning...

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