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!

  • Breadhax0r@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    I remember reading that tesla only uses cameras for it’s self driving. My 2018 Honda uses radar for the adaptive cruise so the technology exists, musk is just an idiot.

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      5 hours ago

      Does it? My 2023 model throws a shit fit if it’s cold and I assume the camera covers are iced over.

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        4 hours ago

        It probably has cameras as well, for lane guidance etc.

        My Mazda complains if the windscreen is dirty for the same reason.

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      5 hours ago

      Radar doesn’t detect stopped objects at high speed. It’d hit the wall too on radar alone.

      This has to be solved by vision and or lidar.

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        1 hour ago

        Unless your car is traveling faster than the speed of light, radar will detect objects in front of it. But yeah, I was trying to imply that for a complex system like self driving musk is a buffoon for relying on a single system instead of creating a more robust package of sensors.