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!

  • IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    I believe he claimed that since humans use their vision to drive that computer vision was more than enough.

    I don’t know about you, but I also rely on sounds & feel when I drive. I also know that the human eye has evolved to detect motion, filter out extraneous information, and send just the important bits to the brain so that it doesn’t get overloaded with everything the eye sees. Computer vision is the exact opposite from that, having to process every bit of every image the camera sees.

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      8 hours ago

      since humans use their vision to drive that computer vision was more than enough

      Surprised he didn’t swap out the wheels with legs while he was at it

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      10 hours ago

      I also know of many times my vision fails. Driving into a sunrise for example

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      9 hours ago

      I don’t know about you, but I also rely on sounds & feel when I drive.

      Of course. When I feel myself driving into a wall, I stop immediately.