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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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[–] Kissaki@beehaw.org 8 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

and even with that he apparently manually disengaged it before impact

Source?

[–] yesmeisyes@sopuli.xyz 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)
[–] tree_frog@lemm.ee 2 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

Did you finish reading that article?

Because the end talks about Mark's response to these accusations. And apparently he posted some unedited video on x showing that full self-driving disengaged itself 17 frames prior to hitting the wall.

[–] fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 4 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

They program it to do that on purpose so that Elon Musk can go to the median claim that it wasn't using a full self driving mode before the Collision, it's wrong but arguably technically correct and you would have to dig into it to learn the truth which is what he wants. We shouldn't give him the benefit of the doubt because we know what he's up to

[–] tree_frog@lemm.ee 1 points 2 hours ago