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Self-Driving Tesla Crashes into Wall Painted to Look Like a Road… Just Months Before Planned Robotaxi Launch (fuelarc.com)

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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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[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 0 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Good question. I don’t know if they ll succeed but they have a point that humans do it with just vision so why can’t ai do at least as well? We’ll see. I’m happy someone is trying a different approach. Maybe lidar is necessary, but until someone succeeds we won’t know the best approach, so let’s be happy there’s at least one competing attempt

I gave it a try once and it was pretty amazing, but clearly not ready. Tesla is fantastic at “normal” driving, but the trial gave me a real appreciation how driving is all edge cases. At this point I’m no longer confident that anyone will solve the problem adequately for general use.

Plus there will be accidents. No matter how optimistic you may be, it will never be perfect. Are they ready for the liability and reputation hit? Can any company survive that, even if they are demonstrably better than human?

[–] bitchkat@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

It works pretty well as a highway assist. I never use it on city streets because its so slow and hesitant which is worse.

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

For me the biggest downside was really poor road maintenance: lines worn off, long cracks that could be interpreted as lines, offset intersection where you can’t go straight across and no lines … or at night not enough cleared space so the side camera decides it’s obscured.

I have this one really narrow windy road that too many humans have trouble with. I really wanted to see what it would do but decided there wasn’t enough room for me to take over if I needed to