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Tesla Fans Furious at Video of Tesla Crashing Into Wall Painted Like Road (futurism.com)

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In the piece — titled "Can You Fool a Self Driving Car?" — Rober found that a Tesla car on Autopilot was fooled by a Wile E. Coyote-style wall painted to look like the road ahead of it, with the electric vehicle plowing right through it instead of stopping.

The footage was damning enough, with slow-motion clips showing the car not only crashing through the styrofoam wall but also a mannequin of a child. The Tesla was also fooled by simulated rain and fog.

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[–] LemmyFeed@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 2 days ago (14 children)

Don't get me wrong, autopilot turning itself off right before a crash is sus and I wouldn't put it past Tesla to do something like that (I mean come on, why don't they use lidar) but maybe it's so the car doesn't try to power the wheels or something after impact which could potentially worsen the event.

On the other hand, they're POS cars and the autopilot probably just shuts off cause of poor assembly, standards, and design resulting from cutting corners.

[–] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 32 points 2 days ago (7 children)

if it can actually sense a crash is imminent, why wouldn't it be programmed to slam the brakes instead of just turning off?

Do they have a problem with false positives?

[–] endeavor@sopuli.xyz 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

if it was european made, it would slam the brakes or swerve in order to at least try and save lives since governments attempt to regulate companies to not do evil shit. Since it american made it is designed to maximise profit for shareholders.

[–] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I don't believe automatic swerving is a good idea, depending on what's off to the side it has the potential to make a bad situation much worse.

I'm thinking like, kid runs into the street, car swerves and mows down a crowd on the sidewalk

[–] endeavor@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 days ago

Its the cars job to swerve into a less dangerous place.

Can't do that? Oops, no self-driving for you.

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