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Self-Driving Tesla Crashes into Wile E Coyote Wall… Just Months Before Planned Robotaxi Launch - FuelArc News (fuelarc.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by KayLeadfoot@fedia.io to c/technology

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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 […]

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[–] yesmeisyes@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 weeks ago (19 children)

He didn’t even use the Tesla full self driving. He used the ancient autopilot software and even with that he apparently manually disengaged it before impact. Seems pretty disingenuous to me.

[–] Kissaki 3 points 2 weeks ago

The first kid test they did with both auto-pilot and self-driving (or whatever you call that). Was that different for the later tests?

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