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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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[–] fahfahfahfah@lemmy.billiam.net 4 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (2 children)

I probably should have said “only cameras”. Subaru, like the rest, backs the cameras up with radar to avoid situations like in the video.

Edit: welp, apparently not in the front

[–] SteevyT@beehaw.org 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I think I accidentally deleted my post so sorry if this is a duplicate.

I can poke around in my wife's outback to verify again, but as far as I'm aware, Subaru doesn't have any forward radars. Having a set of properly calibrated stereo cameras works amazingly well though. Whatever Tesla is attempting, while still kinda impressive, isn't nearly as polished with the number of phantom breaking events and stuff like this I see complained about online.

Blind spot I believe is radar, and backward is a combination of sonar and radar if I'm not mistaken.

[–] fahfahfahfah@lemmy.billiam.net 3 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Well, then it would be interesting to see if Subaru fails these tests too. Especially the visual impairment ones.

[–] SteevyT@beehaw.org 1 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Just because you seem to be quick to read these and I wanted to mention the vision limitation one after I understood it better.

In my experience with the Outback, it should either work just fine, or if visibility is too bad for it to work reliably, it won't let you engage it (or warn you and turn itself off it conditions deteriorate while engaged.)

[–] SteevyT@beehaw.org 1 points 6 hours ago

If the speed difference between the car and the object is over 32mph (at least for 2018 model year if I'm remembering the number in the manual correctly), I believe it will fail because it doesn't have enough time to identify the object. It will do it's damndest to stop, and should be able to scrub off a solid amount of speed, but there will still be some sort of impact just due to pretty clearly spelled out system limitations.

[–] SteevyT@beehaw.org 1 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

I can poke around in my wife's outback to verify again, but as far as I'm aware, Subaru doesn't have any forward radars. Having a set of properly calibrated stereo cameras works amazingly well though. Whatever Tesla is attempting, while still kinda impressive, isn't nearly as polished from what I see with the number of phantom breaking events and stuff like this I see complained about online.

Blind spot I believe is radar, and backward is a combination of sonar and radar if I'm not mistaken.