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

submitted 2 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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[–] echodot@feddit.uk 14 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Watch the video it's extremely obvious to a human driver that there is something wrong with that view ahead. It's even pointed out in the video that humans use additional visual clues when a situation is ambiguous.

The cars don't have deduction and reasoning capabilities so they need additional sensors to give them more information to compensate due to their lack of brains. So it's not really sensible to compare self-driving systems to humans. Humans have limited sensory input but it's compensated for by reasoning abilities, Self-Driving cars do not have reasoning abilities but it's compensated for by enhanced sensory input.

[–] Kaput@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Wonder if stereoscopic cameras would figure it out.

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world -3 points 1 day ago

Huh, I thought the exact opposite. The clues were small. While they were sufficient for a focussed driver at slow speeds, it also looked like something that would fool a human at typical speeds and attention span.

Painting exactly like the road is a gimmick that really doesn’t demonstrate anything.

Personally I wished they went full looney tunes to better entertain us and to demonstrate that even significant clues may not be enough