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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I am not going to click a link to X, but this article covers that, and links this raw footage video on X which supposedly proves this claim to be false.

In addition to the folks pointing out it likes to shut itself off (which I can neither confirm nor deny)

https://www.pcmag.com/news/tesla-on-autopilot-runs-over-mannequin-hits-wall-in-viral-video-but-is

Some skeptical viewers claim Autopilot was not engaged when the vehicle ran into the wall. These allegations prompted Rober to release the "raw footage" in a X post, which shows the characteristic signs of Autopilot being engaged, such as a rainbow road appearing on the dash.

https://twitter.com/MarkRober/status/1901449395327094898

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