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!

  • @vin@lemmynsfw.com
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    2 days ago

    Forget lidar, they don’t even have mature tech like radar for emergency braking. Edit: +even

    • @blady_blah@lemmy.world
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      52 days ago

      Why do you think lidar is not mature? It is radar, except it uses light and can get much more resolution than an RF radar. Or was that a joke… That was probably a joke… if it was then nm.

      • @davidgro@lemmy.world
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        192 days ago

        That comment just missed the word ‘even’ - as in they don’t even have radar, and that’s on regular non-self-driving cars, and lidar would be a step above that.

      • Melochar
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        102 days ago

        Not a joke, lidar struggles with fog/rain, which radar can handle much better.

        • @jj4211@lemmy.world
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          72 days ago

          As far as I’ve seen, any system would be additive. If it has lidar, it would also have cameras and radar. So that you get the best of all the technologies (e.g cameras are the only only of the three that can follow lane markings)

      • @vin@lemmynsfw.com
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        32 days ago

        Lidar is mature but its automotive application is not. Radar is basic by now in comparison.