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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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[–] thesohoriots@lemmy.world 133 points 3 days ago (7 children)

The tl;dr here is that Elon said that humans have eyes and they work, and eyes are like cameras, so use cameras instead of expensive LIDAR. Dick fully inside car door for the slam.

[–] fahfahfahfah@lemmy.billiam.net 55 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I thlamed my penith in the car door

[–] troybot@midwest.social 10 points 3 days ago

You SLAMMED your PEnis IN the CAR door

[–] sirdorius@programming.dev 25 points 3 days ago

"Wow, such a brilliant CEO! Cutting waste where it truly matters." - fanbois/bots everywhere

[–] Walican132@lemmy.today 20 points 3 days ago

Ah human eyes have never caused a car accident.

[–] BetaBlake@lemmy.world 16 points 3 days ago

This is the same energy as blizzard saying "you've got phones don't you?"

Teslas are cheap crap, for a premium price, this has always been the case

[–] grue@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

In theory he's not wrong, except for that part where neither the optics nor (especially) the software come anywhere close to matching the performance of human eyes and brains and won't for the foreseeable future.

[–] davidgro@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

And human eyes/brains aren't good enough anyway. The whole hype about self-driving cars was that they were supposed to be better than humans.

[–] mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

The worst part is that LiDAR isn’t even expensive anymore. Hell, my phone has LiDAR. He originally said that to justify the fact that they were dealing with a component shortage and he needed to keep shipping vehicles. So he simply shipped them without the LiDAR systems that he couldn’t get ahold of, and claimed it was because he didn’t need LiDAR.

But now LiDAR is much more advanced and cheaper. But since he refused to admit it was because of a component shortage, adding LiDAR now would require Musk to publicly admit he was wrong. And we all know that will never happen.

[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 2 points 3 days ago

The entire premise of the joke is that we could mistake a sufficiently detailed image of a road for an actual road. That humans are susceptible to such a failure does not mean it is reasonable for a robot to share the same flaw.