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Tesla Fans Furious at Video of Tesla Crashing Into Wall Painted Like Road (futurism.com)

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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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[–] [email protected] 100 points 15 hours ago (35 children)

Why would a car that expensive not have a LiDAR sensor?

[–] [email protected] 23 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (19 children)

Read about this somewhere. Iirc, Elon felt cameras were better than LiDAR at a time when that was kinda true, but the technology improved considerably in the interim and he pridefully refuses to admit he needs to adapt. [Edit: I had hastily read the referenced article and am incorrect here; link to accurate statements is linked in a reply below.]

[–] [email protected] 46 points 14 hours ago (5 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 13 hours ago

And to make him think he's a smart boy.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours 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.