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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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[–] Breadhax0r@lemmy.world 14 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

I remember reading that tesla only uses cameras for it's self driving. My 2018 Honda uses radar for the adaptive cruise so the technology exists, musk is just an idiot.

[–] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 3 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Does it? My 2023 model throws a shit fit if it's cold and I assume the camera covers are iced over.

[–] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 3 points 9 hours ago

It probably has cameras as well, for lane guidance etc.

My Mazda complains if the windscreen is dirty for the same reason.

[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world -2 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

Radar doesn't detect stopped objects at high speed. It'd hit the wall too on radar alone.

This has to be solved by vision and or lidar.

[–] Breadhax0r@lemmy.world 4 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Unless your car is traveling faster than the speed of light, radar will detect objects in front of it. But yeah, I was trying to imply that for a complex system like self driving musk is a buffoon for relying on a single system instead of creating a more robust package of sensors.

[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 1 points 15 minutes ago* (last edited 3 minutes ago)

They get filtered out and the car will not act on it because there is so much noise from stationary objects all around you. The car essentially wouldn't drive at all if it didn't filter them out.

At high speeds, the radar in all cars is used to detect moving objects and the change in velocity of those objects.

Radar will not prevent running into this wall at 40mph.

People can downvote me all they want, but that doesn't change anything.

Only vison and / or lidar would stop for that wall at 40mph.