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Tesla Fans Furious at Video of Tesla Crashing Into Wall Painted Like Road (futurism.com)

submitted 3 days ago by whydudothatdrcrane@lemmy.ml to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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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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[–] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 46 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's a highly questionable approach that has raised concerns over Tesla trying to evade guilt by automatically turning off any possibly incriminating driver assistance features before a crash.

So, who's the YouTuber that's gonna test this out? Since Elmo has pushed his way into the government in order to quash any investigation into it.

[–] bay400@thelemmy.club 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It basically already happened in the Mark Rober video, it turns off by itself less than a second before hitting

[–] Draegur@lemm.ee 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

He needs to post footage of it turning off as he drives. An uninterrupted one-camera take from start to crash to finish.

[–] bay400@thelemmy.club 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

He did, I don't have the link unfortunately but he did post the unedited take from inside the car where you can see it turn off

[–] Crikeste@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

It’s from the Philip DeFranco interview he did after the weekend it was released.

https://youtu.be/W1htfqXyX6M

[–] bay400@thelemmy.club 1 points 1 day ago

Right yeah that's the one I was referring to