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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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[–] SteevyT@beehaw.org 1 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 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.