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Self-Driving Tesla Crashes into Wall Painted to Look Like a Road… Just Months Before Planned Robotaxi Launch (fuelarc.com)

submitted 1 day ago by KayLeadfoot@fedia.io to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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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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[–] 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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[–] ladicius@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago

The real test starts at 11 minutes and shows frightening problems of the Nazi clown cars.

[–] vga@sopuli.xyz 24 points 21 hours ago

Meep meep.

[–] guynamedzero@sh.itjust.works 23 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Youtube mad scientist

Okay come on, Styropyro fits the bill way better for “mad scientist”

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[–] arankays@lemmy.ca 23 points 1 day ago (27 children)

I tried Waymo when I was visiting LA a few months ago. Genuinely terrific stuff.

I do not trust Teslas one bit though.

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[–] cmhe@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago (13 children)

I am a bit disappointed to not see the Tesla crash into a real wall. I feel a bit click baited here.

Also, they prepared the polystyrene wall to break this cartoonishly, but still played on being surprised.

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[–] Corno@lemm.ee 17 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

"Wile E Coyote was here"

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[–] Halosheep@lemm.ee 16 points 3 hours ago (3 children)

Very surprised Mark isn't... Super supportive of musk and Tesla.

He owns a Tesla and is rather wealthy at this point. Not to mention that he's Mormon. I'd expect him to be very conservative and all in on the grift.

[–] KayLeadfoot@fedia.io 19 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

What a world we're living in!

Observing a technical deficiency in a robotics platform requires political considerations. Even when a car drives into a fucking wall at 40MPH on camera, people are asking about the camera man's political party affiliation and not what's wrong with the car.

Wild!

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[–] futatorius@lemm.ee 16 points 18 hours ago (5 children)

Suddenly, there are more Yellow Brick Road murals everywhere.

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[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago

This is what happens when you don't lidar

[–] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 12 points 22 hours ago

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

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