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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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[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago

Yep, I could see someone placing a billboard like that with a cliff behind it.

[–] Coreidan@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago

Tesla is trash.

Fuck Elon musk.

[–] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 12 points 2 weeks ago

A fitting metaphor for Musky and their involvement with the US government.

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago (9 children)

To be fair, I'd be surprised if half the humans driving didn't do the same.

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[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

can someone do this to trumps tesla please

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[–] kane@femboys.biz 8 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

Can this be solved with just cameras, or would this need additional hardware? I know they removed LIDAR, but thought that would only be effective short range, and would not be too helpful at 65 km/h.

[–] Overtheveloper@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

If for some bizarre reason you would want to stick to cameras only, you could use 2 cameras and calculate the distance to various points based on the difference between the images. Thats called stereoscopy and is precisely what gives our brains depth perception. The issue is that this process is expensive computationally so I'd guess that it would be cheaper to go back to lidar.

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[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 10 points 2 weeks ago

Can this be solved with just cameras

Theoretically yes, but in reality, not with current technology.

but thought that would only be effective short range

LIDAR actually has quite a long range. You can look up some of the images LIDAR creates, they're pretty comprehensive.

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