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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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[-] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 day ago

Mark Rober's video of the six tests (the remaining section is about mapping Space Mountain as Mark wanted to do since he was a kid)

The wall looking like a road test

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[-] Teal@lemm.ee 11 points 23 hours ago

Beep beep! Damn things are using ACME LiDAR!

[-] thann@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 22 hours ago

Actually elon demanded that lidar be depricated because of phantom breaking years ago, they only use visible spectrum cameras now

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