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

submitted 1 day ago by whydudothatdrcrane@lemmy.ml to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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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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[–] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 116 points 18 hours ago (4 children)

"Dipshit Nazis mad at facts bursting their bubble is unreality" is another way of reading this headline.

[–] melpomenesclevage@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 8 hours ago

well yeah, happens every time I say something mad about their current favorite GPU-use fad.

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[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 252 points 20 hours ago (17 children)

As Electrek points out, Autopilot has a well-documented tendency to disengage right before a crash. Regulators have previously found that the advanced driver assistance software shuts off a fraction of a second before making impact.

This has been known.

They do it so they can evade liability for the crash.

[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 11 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (4 children)

Any crash within 10s of a disengagement counts as it being on so you can't just do this.

Edit: added the time unit.

Edit2: it's actually 30s not 10s. See below.

[–] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 5 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

10n what

[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 4 points 9 hours ago

Oops haha, 10 seconds.

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[–] fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 21 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 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.

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[–] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 4 points 8 hours ago (5 children)

If it knows it's about to crash, then why not just brake?

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