this post was submitted on 16 Mar 2025

1409 points (99.4% liked)

Not The Onion

14986 readers

2979 users here now

Welcome

We're not The Onion! Not affiliated with them in any way! Not operated by them in any way! All the news here is real!

The Rules

Posts must be:

Links to news stories from...
...credible sources, with...
...their original headlines, that...
...would make people who see the headline think, “That has got to be a story from The Onion, America’s Finest News Source.”

Please also avoid duplicates.

Comments and post content must abide by the server rules for Lemmy.world and generally abstain from trollish, bigoted, or otherwise disruptive behavior that makes this community less fun for everyone.

And that’s basically it!

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

kescusay@lemmy.world

1409

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

submitted 1 day ago by KayLeadfoot@fedia.io to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

265 comments fedilink hide all child comments

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!

(page 5) 50 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old

[–] guynamedzero@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Youtube mad scientist

Okay come on, Styropyro fits the bill way better for “mad scientist”

[–] KayLeadfoot@fedia.io 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Aw come on, I thought the lasers versus watermelons demo was a lot of fun, and if that isn't mad science, I don't know what is

[–] guynamedzero@sh.itjust.works 9 points 23 hours ago

Don't get me wrong, I love Mark, but his content is kind of, tailored to the masses, you know what I mean? Fun stuff you can do at home! A mad scientist might do something more insane, such as connect 100 car batteries together to rival the power of lightning...

[–] swizzlestick@lemmy.zip 7 points 23 hours ago

NurdRage ticks the box for me. Also NileRed before he moved out of a garage lab. Still cool though.

[–] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 6 points 23 hours ago

Styropyro genuinely has a screw loose, explosions and fire also fits the bill. And he's Australian.

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 13 points 23 hours ago

This is what happens when you don't lidar

[–] thespcicifcocean@lemmy.world 6 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

So to stop robotaxis, all we have to do is paint a fake road directly into a rock wall with a painted on tunnel.

[–] KayLeadfoot@fedia.io 15 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

"Carl, that kills people!" GIF

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 6 points 19 hours ago

Even a few non-robotaxi people.

[–] thespcicifcocean@lemmy.world 7 points 22 hours ago

If the roadrunner cartoons taught me anything, it's that no matter what happens, whether you've been blown to smithereens or fell off a cliff and subsequently flattened by a boulder, you'll be good as now in the next scene.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip -1 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (6 children)

The question is could this fool a human

Also I went and watched the video and he doesn't seem to even use full self driving for the wall test

load more comments (6 replies)

load more comments