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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] -8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm not being deliberately dense it just a seriously incomplete analogy. At worst I'm being pedantic. And if that's the case I apologize.

I agree with the premise that the cars need lidar radar whatever the f*** they can get.

Saying if a vacuum company can see that a vacuum needs lidar (which is a flawed premise because half the f****** vacuums use vslam/cameras) then why doesn't my car have lidar, none of the consumer car companies are using it (yet anyway). It's great to get the rabble up and say why are vacuum companies doing it when car companies can't but when nobody's doing it there are reasons. Ford Chevy BMW f***, what about Audi what about Porsche? What about these luxury brands that cost an arm and three fucking legs.

Let's turn this on its head, why do people think they're not including it in cars. And let's discount musk for the moment because we already know he's a fucking idiot that never had an original idea in his life and answer why it isn't in any other brand.

Is it just that none of these companies thought about it? Is it a conspiracy? What do people think here. If I'm being so dense tell me why the companies aren't using it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If I'm being so dense tell me why the companies aren't using it.

You mean company singular. It's literally only Tesla that don't use lidar every other car manufacturer uses it. So the answer is because Elon wants to save every last single penny. There is no grand conspiracy here for you to uncover it is literally that Tesla are cheapskates.

And you are being deliberately dense because this has been explained to you ad infinitum and you still don't seem to get it.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 week ago

It’s literally only Tesla that don’t use lidar every other car manufacturer uses it.

I've not seen any of that in the wild around me. Car sales are kinda shit in the US for the past year tho. guess I'm behind on what's out there. Economy what it is it's been a couple years since I've looked at getting a car.