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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[–] 49 points 1 year ago (1 child)

I don't even understand that logic. Use both. Even if one is significantly better than the other, they each have different weaknesses and can mitigate for each other.

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  • [–] 38 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    It was always just to save money and pad the profit margins

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    A LiDAR sensor couldn't add more than a few hundred to a car, surely

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    They ditched radar at a time when radar only added probably about $50 a car according to some estimates.

    It may technically get a smidge more profitable, but it almost seems like it's more about hubris around tech shouldn't need more than a human to do as well. Which even if it were true, is a stupid stance to take when in that scenario you could have better than human senses.

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