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!

  • Billybob22@feddit.uk
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    16 hours ago

    I have never seen a mural on a road depicting a road that is identical to the road that I am driving on. Hope that helps.

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        3 hours ago

        Ha well done.

        Not sure people will be using self drive around a car park but if that is the plan then I guess you Americans will have to white wash that kind of thing.

    • privatizetwiddle@lemmy.sdf.org
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      5 hours ago

      Maybe someone should do a follow up experiment to see how different the “mural” would have to be for the car to recognise it. A human would obviously not fall for something like an artistic picture of a fantasy land, but would a Tesla?