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

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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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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

props to the LiDAR car for trying to drive through that heavy rain - does it just have enough resolution to see through the droplets to determine that there isn't a solid object within braking distance?

EDIT: actually maybe it didn't, and just stopped when it realised that it couldn't see through the water?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Maybe because water is transparent? can lidar see glass? That'd be an interesting one, Tesla and Lidar car vs large sheet of acrylic.