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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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[-] elatedCatfish@lemm.ee 5 points 2 days ago

New Trump-Hitman challenge unlocked

[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 2 days ago

Wonderful news.

[-] Formfiller@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

They sound like they’re perfect for red states

[-] thespcicifcocean@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

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

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[-] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 days ago

It is a very high bar for FSD to force it to deal with intentional sabotage of FSD.

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