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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 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!

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[–] Naevermix@lemmy.world 23 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Make Elon test ride the first Tesla robotaxi and there's a chance the funniest thing of all time will happen.

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[–] faberyayo@lemm.ee 21 points 1 month ago

Some cartoon shit

[–] Boxscape@lemmy.sdf.org 20 points 1 month ago
[–] FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

New stuff to add to the car kit bag for the 21st century

  1. poster board to block usonic weapons
  2. black paint, white paint, roller, brush to paint tunnels on walls
  3. orange cones to pen in self driving cars
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[–] kamen@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago
[–] TransSynthesist@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You all keep calling it wrong. It's pronounced Tesler.

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[–] Jeffool@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

This would be hilarious if it weren't for shitty cars causing deaths.

That said, I always wondered why we don't find a system like RFID that could penetrate concrete and asphalt, and plant passive receivers in roads? We re-pave roads so damn often in this country (the U.S.) it seems like we could've knocked it out in the past couple of decades, minus our most rural areas.

I know RFID itself isn't strong enough, but I imagine that would've been an easier problem than figuring our complete self driving. Not to mention making GPS a secondary system for U.S. road travel in most cases.

Maybe it's just a dumb shower thought?

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[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I am very glad that Elon and Trump have overreached and now Tesla is suffering. I hope Starlink is the next domino to fall.

[–] Atmoro@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yup plus the European Union is making their alternative to launch in a year or 2

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

Good.

I'm not rooting for America to fail, but I'm 100% rooting for Elon to fail.

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Mark Rober's video of the six tests (the remaining section is about mapping Space Mountain as Mark wanted to do since he was a kid)

The wall looking like a road test

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[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 month ago

Painted walls, the natural enemy of the Tesla.

[–] brsrklf@jlai.lu 12 points 1 month ago (5 children)

They obviously pre-cut the wall, probably for safety reasons, and they were like, let's make it a silly cartoon impact hole while we're at it.

Good job.

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[–] Teal@lemm.ee 11 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Beep beep! Damn things are using ACME LiDAR!

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