Man Tests If Tesla Autopilot Will Crash Into Wall Painted to Look Like Road

In a damning new video, YouTuber and former NASA engineer Mark Rober has perfectly demonstrated why Tesla relying entirely on visual data from a suite of cameras isn't such a good idea for driver-assistance tech. The Elon Musk-led EV maker has given up entirely on LIDAR or radar sensors, which its many competitors have been using for object detection for years, with Musk once calling LIDAR "fricking stupid, expensive and unnecessary." But by relying only on visual data, Tesla's Autopilot can easily be fooled by anything from heavy fog to a wall-scale painting of the road ahead, as Rober showed in his latest video. It's an incriminating piece of evidence, demonstrating how Tesla's approach could easily lead to a collision. Experts have long warned that the EV maker's cameras-only approach is dangerous, especially when LIDAR and radar exist as alternatives. Worse yet, Tesla is planning to roll out an "unsupervised" version of its infamous "Full Self-Driving" driver assistance softwar ... Read full article.