Someone Else Tested Whether a Tesla Will Really Crash Into a Wall Painted Like a Road

Earlier this month, YouTuber and former NASA engineer Mark Rober released a video titled "Can You Fool a Self Driving Car?" which showed a Tesla on Autopilot getting fooled by a Wile E. Coyote-style wall painted to look like the road ahead of it. High frame-rate footage shows the vehicle plowing right through the styrofoam obstruction, an eyebrow-raising demonstration of the company relying exclusively on video feeds for its driver assistance software. That's unlike some of its competitors in the autonomous vehicle space, which use LIDAR and radar as well — technology that can easily tell between the road and a wall that only looks like it. The controversial video kicked off a heated debate surrounding Tesla's driver assistance tech, with fanboys crying foul, arguing Rober should've used the company's more sophisticated — and very expensive — Full Self-Driving (FSD) software. But given a new attempt at a replication of the experiment, there are still plenty of reasons to be concerne ... Read full article.