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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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[–] Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 178 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It got fucking wile e coyoted

[–] KayLeadfoot@fedia.io 86 points 1 day ago

The scientists in Ireland calling their data set to prevent this exact fucking thing "Coyote" sent me over the moon.

[–] Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.org 77 points 1 day ago

TIL Mark Rober is a domestic terrorist

[–] pjwestin@lemmy.world 38 points 1 day ago

To be fair, the roadrunner it was following somehow successfully ran into the painting.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 25 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Mark Rober is about to be listed as FBI public enemy #1 :(

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[–] jet@hackertalks.com 141 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (12 children)
[–] KayLeadfoot@fedia.io 107 points 1 day ago (16 children)

"But humans can do it with their eyes!" - says the man not selling a human brain to go with the optical sensors

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[–] Armok_the_bunny@lemmy.world 111 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I saw the video pop up in my Youtube recommended, but didn't bother watching because I just assumed that any cars tested would be using LIDAR and thus would ignore the fake road just fine. I had no idea Tesla a) was still using basic cameras for this and b) actually had sophisticated enough "self driving" capabilities that this could be tested on them safely.

[–] Lukas@feddit.org 153 points 1 day ago (11 children)

They are not still using cameras but removed LIDAR and radar from their cars during the chip shortage 2020/21. The story they were telling was "humans don't have LIDAR but can drive cars as well, so the cars also only need 'eyes' like humans".

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 99 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Humans cannot, in fact, drive cars well. Humans kill tens of thousands of other humans with cars every year in the US alone.

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 82 points 1 day ago (16 children)

Yup, cameras and humans share various exploits. Self-driving is going to work better than humans once every car has it and communicates with each other, allowing for minimal gaps even at high speeds, once roads are all very standardized and in a database, and-

Wait, that's trains

Fucking build more electrified high-speed rail and forget tech bros' shitty promises

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[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 104 points 1 day ago (2 children)

And let me just add, Musk ordered the LIDAR removed against the engineers better judgement.

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[–] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 12 points 1 day ago

A fitting metaphor for Musky and their involvement with the US government.

[–] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 76 points 1 day ago (1 children)
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[–] Corno@lemm.ee 17 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)
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To any artists in Austin,TX: you have your work cut out for you. Godspeed.

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