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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/technology@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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[–] Naevermix@lemmy.world 20 points 14 hours ago

Make Elon test ride the first Tesla robotaxi and there's a chance the funniest thing of all time will happen.

[–] Boxscape@lemmy.sdf.org 20 points 1 day ago

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[–] faberyayo@lemm.ee 19 points 13 hours ago

Some cartoon shit

[–] kamen@lemmy.world 18 points 14 hours ago

Meep meep!

[–] FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 18 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

New stuff to add to the car kit bag for the 21st century

poster board to block usonic weapons
black paint, white paint, roller, brush to paint tunnels on walls
orange cones to pen in self driving cars

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[–] jewbies@lemmynsfw.com 17 points 16 hours ago

That's some Wiley Coyote shit if I ever saw it.

[–] Yoga@lemmy.ca 15 points 11 hours ago

Insurance fraud is going to bankrupt Tesla robotaxis faster than an incompetent CEO ever could.

There will be too many ways to defeat the cameras and not having LiDAR unlike the rest of the industry may prove to be found to be a failure of duty of care.

[–] TransSynthesist@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You all keep calling it wrong. It's pronounced Tesler.

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[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 14 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I am very glad that Elon and Trump have overreached and now Tesla is suffering. I hope Starlink is the next domino to fall.

[–] Atmoro@lemmy.world 13 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Yup plus the European Union is making their alternative to launch in a year or 2

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[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 13 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Mark Rober's video of the six tests (the remaining section is about mapping Space Mountain as Mark wanted to do since he was a kid)

The wall looking like a road test

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[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 day ago

Painted walls, the natural enemy of the Tesla.

[–] brsrklf@jlai.lu 12 points 1 day ago (5 children)

They obviously pre-cut the wall, probably for safety reasons, and they were like, let's make it a silly cartoon impact hole while we're at it.

Good job.

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[–] Teal@lemm.ee 11 points 19 hours ago (3 children)

Beep beep! Damn things are using ACME LiDAR!

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