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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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[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 190 points 3 days ago (16 children)

I wondered how the hell it managed to fool LIDAR, well...

The stunt was meant to demonstrate the shortcomings of relying entirely on cameras — rather than the LIDAR and radar systems used by brands and autonomous vehicle makers other than Tesla.

[–] Weirdfish@lemmy.world 162 points 3 days ago

If I could pass one law, requiring multiple redundant scanning tech on anything autonomous large enough to hurt me might be it.

I occasionally go to our warehouses which have robotic arms, autonomous fork lifts, etc. All of those have far more saftey features than a self driving Tesla, and they aren't in public.

[–] thesohoriots@lemmy.world 133 points 3 days ago (12 children)

The tl;dr here is that Elon said that humans have eyes and they work, and eyes are like cameras, so use cameras instead of expensive LIDAR. Dick fully inside car door for the slam.

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[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 117 points 3 days ago (39 children)

Why would a car that expensive not have a LiDAR sensor?

[–] O_R_I_O_N@lemm.ee 61 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Cameras are cheaper..that's it

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[–] ZeroGravitas@lemm.ee 100 points 3 days ago (14 children)

Painted wall? That's high tech shit.

I got a Tesla from my work before Elon went full Reich 3, and try this:

break on bridge shadows on the highway
start wipers on shadows, but not on rain
break on cars parked on the roadside if there's a bend in the road
disengage autopilot and break when driving towards the sun
change set speed at highway crossings because fuck the guy behind me, right?
engage emergency break if a bike waits to cross at the side of the road

To which I'll add:

moldy frunk (short for fucking trunk, I guess?), no ventilation whatsoever, water comes in, water stays in
pay attention noises for fuck-all reasons masking my podcasts and forcing me to rewind
the fucking cabin camera nanny - which I admittedly disabled with some chewing gum
the worst mp3 player known to man, the original Winamp was light years ahead - won't index, won't search, will reload USB and lose its place with almost every car start
bonkers UI with no integration with Android or Apple - I'm playing podcasts via low rate Bluetooth codecs, at least it doesn't matter much for voice
unusable airco in auto mode, insists on blowing cold air in your face

Say what you want about European cars, at least they got usability and integration right. As did most of the auto industry. Fuck Tesla, never again. Bunch of Steve Jobs wannabes.

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[–] wabafee@lemmy.world 60 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (16 children)

I bet the reason why he does not want the LiDAR in the car really cause it looks ugly aestheticly.

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 91 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (12 children)

It costs too much. It's also why you have to worry about panels falling off the swastitruck if you park next to them. They also apparently lack any sort of rollover frame.

He doesn't want to pay for anything, including NHTSB crash tests.

It's literally what Drumpf would have created if he owned a car company. Cut all costs, disregard all regulations, and make the public the alpha testers.