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Tesla Fans Furious at Video of Tesla Crashing Into Wall Painted Like Road (futurism.com)

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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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[–] fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 24 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (2 children)

That makes so little sense... It detects it's about to crash then gives up and lets you sort it?
That's like the opposite of my Audi who does detect I'm about to hit something and gives me either a warning or just actively hits the brakes if I don't have time to handle it.
If this is true, this is so fucking evil it's kinda amazing it could have reached anywhere near prod.

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

even your audi is going to dump to human control if it can't figure out what the appropriate response is. Granted, your Audi is probably smart enough to be like "yeah don't hit the fucking wall," but eh.... it was put together by people that actually know what they're doing, and care about safety.

Tesla isn't doing this for safety or because it's the best response. The cars are doing this because they don't want to pay out for wrongful death lawsuits.

If this is true, this is so fucking evil it’s kinda amazing it could have reached anywhere near prod.

It's musk. he's fucking vile, and this isn't even close to the worst thing he's doing. or has done.

[–] Red_October@lemmy.world 17 points 10 hours ago

The point is that they can say "Autopilot wasn't active during the crash." They can leave out that autopilot was active right up until the moment before, or that autopilot directly contributed to it. They're just purely leaning into the technical truth that it wasn't on during the crash. Whether it's a courtroom defense or their own next published set of data, "Autopilot was not active during any recorded Tesla crashes."