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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[–] 11 points 2 years ago (1 child)

They wondered that before/while reading the article, then got to the quoted part that explains that Teslas don't have Lidar, and understood that it did not in fact fool it: it just wasn't there.

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