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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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[-] Viri4thus@feddit.org 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Who was the idiot that removed LiDar to cut costs?

/s

[-] bobslaede@feddit.dk 4 points 3 months ago

Elon removed the radar. Tesla cars never had lidar. What an idiot Musk.

[-] Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 months ago

He did say lidar was "useless" though.

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

He's said humans don't use LiDAR so his cars shouldn't have to. Of course humans have a brain, and he's cars don't, but you can't tell him anything.

[-] Zink@programming.dev 2 points 3 months ago

Human drivers also make automobiles one of the most dangerous ways to travel.

[-] Bazoogle@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

I think it's also reasonable to say a human dying because of their own actions is different than a human dying because a big corp cut costs on safety features in an entirely autonomous car where the human has no ability to stop what's happening. (You can control them in current teslas, but they're working on cars without human controls as well)

[-] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

He also said the government doesn't use sql.

[-] zenpocalypse@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago

Bahaha, what kind of a bizarre statement is that?

Was he trying to imply the government only uses spreadsheets and nosql DBs?

Or did he think it was necessary to point out that your average government employee isn't writing their own SQL to grab data they need?

[-] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Someone said something he didn't like so he blurted out the first ignorant thing that he thought of, as usual.

[-] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Even then, that's not really correct. People grab data through sql queries all the time. Mostly because all the front ends are trash.

[-] jaschen@lemm.ee 0 points 3 months ago

It was removed because it was giving false positives. They should have upgraded it with lidar but decided to just remove it.

[-] bitchkat@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

It was removed because of supply chain issues.

[-] Valmond@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago

They are so expensive too! /s

Who would have known electronics gets cheaper all the time?? /j

[-] Viri4thus@feddit.org 1 points 3 months ago
[-] Valmond@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

I just abandoned and got myself an RX 6400 (my kids stole my PCs). Works well for Commandos and C&C 😅

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