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.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] 34 points 2 years ago (7 children)

It didn't fool lidar... The car equipped with lidar stopped before hitting the wall because it saw the obstacle not what was on the obstacle

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 7 child comments
  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    You didn't see the quote in the above comment that specifically states Teslas don't have lidar but other brands using it weren't fooled?

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 6 child comments
  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    The person I replied to said he wondered how it fooled lidar...

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 5 child comments
  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    "Wondered" past tense, as in now they realise after reading the quote that the car they thought had lidar in it actually does not.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments