Tesla Fans Furious at Video of Tesla Crashing Into Wall Painted Like Road

YouTuber and former NASA engineer Mark Rober has kicked the hornet's nest with his latest video. 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. A separate test vehicle, a Luminar tech-equipped Lexus SUV, aced the tests. 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. "I can definitively say for the first time in the history of the world, Tesla's optical camera system would absolutely smash through a fake wall without even a slight tap on ... Read full article.