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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 20 hours 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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[–] baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 26 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Small correction here: they never had LIDAR. Cars with LIDAR have big racks on top with a spinny thing measuring the surroundings. Teslas had radar but removed during the chip shortage (and disabled it on existing cars) and acted like it was an improvement. The radar was used for distance keeping on cars and could actually detect the car in front of the car by bouncing signals off the ground, it was really slick.

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 6 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Spinny thing is just when you mount one ontop. It doesn't have to be. The example in the video appears to use a forward facing cone LIDAR. Presumably in addition to other sensors.

[–] Gawdsausage@lemm.ee 1 points 7 hours ago

It's still a spinny thing with a laser in it. That's fundamentally how lidar works. The outside shell can look however they want it to look.