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Self-Driving Tesla Crashes into Wall Painted to Look Like a Road… Just Months Before Planned Robotaxi Launch (fuelarc.com)

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Mark Rober just set up one of the most interesting self-driving tests of 2025, and he did it by imitating Looney Tunes. The former NASA engineer and current YouTube mad scientist recreated the classic gag where Wile E. Coyote paints a tunnel onto a wall to fool the Road Runner.

Only this time, the test subject wasn’t a cartoon bird… it was a self-driving Tesla Model Y.

The result? A full-speed, 40 MPH impact straight into the wall. Watch the video and tell us what you think!

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Mark Rober's video of the six tests (the remaining section is about mapping Space Mountain as Mark wanted to do since he was a kid)

The wall looking like a road test

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Beep beep! Damn things are using ACME LiDAR!

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 days ago (1 children)

You all keep calling it wrong. It's pronounced Tesler.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago

Painted walls, the natural enemy of the Tesla.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago (5 children)

They obviously pre-cut the wall, probably for safety reasons, and they were like, let's make it a silly cartoon impact hole while we're at it.

Good job.

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