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Self-Driving Tesla Crashes into Wall Painted to Look Like a Road… Just Months Before Planned Robotaxi Launch (fuelarc.com)
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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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[–] EaterOfLentils@lemmy.world 49 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Apparently they keep getting tickets in China because they didn't bother to adjust the settings to accommodate Chinese roads and traffic laws. Result is Tesla is getting utterly crushed by BYD in their one major market that doesn't care about Elon's antics.

[–] accideath@lemmy.world 7 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Huh, now I’m mildly interested in the differences in traffic laws in China vs US vs Europe that lead to Teslas getting more tickets in China than elsewhere.

[–] elephantium@lemmy.world 8 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I found this article. My takeaways were:

  1. No driving in bus lanes during certain times of day.
  2. No using the shoulder as a turn lane.
  3. No using a bike lane as a turn lane.
[–] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Wow

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This post brought to you by American car centrism

[–] elephantium@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Not sure what "American car centrism" has to do with Chinese traffic regulations tbh

[–] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 3 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

I think their regs, while seemingly very basic rules of the road, are based because I live in the US and we have bike lanes here that just whole ass turn into turn lanes with almost no warning. I wish we could get basic decency for everyone on the road, too.