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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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[–] [email protected] 77 points 1 week ago (1 children)

And that's what you get for cheaping out on tech and going with cameras over lidar. Not only that, but Tesla removed all the radar technology that literally every car uses for collision detection about a year ago.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You all keep calling it wrong. It's pronounced Tesler.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

Painted walls, the natural enemy of the Tesla.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

A genius :-)

[–] [email protected] 108 points 1 week ago (8 children)

I read something a while back from a guy while wearing a T-shirt with a stop sign on it, a couple robotaxies stopped in front of him. It got me thinking you could cause some chaos walking around with a speed limit 65 shirt.

[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Teslas did this in the past. There was also the issue of thinking that the moon was a red light or something.

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[–] [email protected] 152 points 1 week ago (32 children)
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