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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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[-] perviouslyiner@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

props to the LiDAR car for trying to drive through that heavy rain - does it just have enough resolution to see through the droplets to determine that there isn't a solid object within braking distance?

EDIT: actually maybe it didn't, and just stopped when it realised that it couldn't see through the water?

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[-] Ulrich_the_Old@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago

How are there still tesla fans?

[-] nuko147@lemm.ee 5 points 1 week ago

Man these cars don`t have a Radar ? Only eyes like most of the animals? Not even as a backup ? Not talking about Lasers, but Radar? Truck drivers, better not paint a scenery on the back of your truck.

[-] frezik@midwest.social 4 points 1 week ago

LIDAR generally works better at relatively short distances (like less than a km). Several other car companies are going with LIDAR and do alright. Musk thinks cameras with image recognition would be sufficient without anything else. It goes without saying that Musk is very wrong.

[-] silverlose@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago

Yeah, he’s a total idiot. That decision has held them back from so much progress… and for what? Saving a negligible amount of money on a very expensive car. Nice.

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[-] demizerone@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

It was super annoying how scared he acted when he knew it was styrofoam and it wasn't even going to leave a scratch on the car. I would have like it much better if the car crashed into and actual wall and burst into flames.

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[-] ABetterTomorrow@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago

Sounds like they are mad at them selves and not realize it. Think it though people.

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