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!

  • arankays@lemmy.ca
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    6 hours ago

    I tried Waymo when I was visiting LA a few months ago. Genuinely terrific stuff.

    I do not trust Teslas one bit though.

    • Ken Oh@lemm.ee
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      3 hours ago

      Tesla doesn’t use lidar for its sensing, living on the prayer that AI will just get good enough soon enough. Absolutely galaxy brained decision.

    • melpomenesclevage@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      3 hours ago

      waymo’s have almost hit me like three times, and if i were slower, they would have. you are part of the problem. those are killing machines.

      • grumps@lemmy.i.secretponi.es
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        39 minutes ago

        I’m surrounded by waymos every time I go out and I can tell you that if they “almost hit you” three times then that’s very likely a you problem – and a reason for more waymos, not fewer.

        Anecdotally, only once have I been in a situation where I’ve said, “do better, robot” because I was slightly inconvenienced by it.

        By the numbers there are very few waymo incidents compared to human drivers and those include waymos being hit by bicyclists who aren’t paying attention.