Tesla Autopilot drove into Wile E. Coyote-style fake road wall in the middle of the road in a camera versus...

Tesla Autopilot drove into Wile E. Coyote-style fake road wall in the middle of the road in a camera versus lidar test.

  • Brkdncr@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    19 hours ago

    Mark states he used it because it was more conservative but commenters are saying it wasn’t on for the wall test.

    • Darkassassin07@lemmy.caEnglish
      41·
      18 hours ago

      Hmm…

      Taking a close look just now; there’s two conflicting shots.

      At 15:34 the blue lines and rainbow effect ‘turn on’ on the center screen. Then the shot from inside the car shows no rainbow/blue lines during impact at 15:42.

      I then started looking around a bit and found:

      He posted the ‘raw footage’, which shows Autopilot disengage before impact, but not brake. Unfortunately when you compare the two, it’s clear these are two seprate takes: the youtube version had Autopilot engage at 39mph, while the ‘raw footage’ shows it engage at 42mph.

      Combined with the obvious advertising/conflict of interest; this one’s gonna have Mark in some hot water… Tesla may even have a solid defamation case here :/

      https://teslanorth.com/2025/03/16/busted-mark-robers-misleading-tesla-test-sparks-outrage/

      • Clasm@ttrpg.networkEnglish
        5·
        18 hours ago

        So the question then remains, can the autopilot disengage if it senses an imminent collision so that the manufacturers aren’t held liable?

        • Darkassassin07@lemmy.caEnglish
          11·
          17 hours ago

          It certainly could, and wouldn’t really surprise me tbh. Whether it does or not would need to be tested further as unfortunately I think Mark has pretty well destroyed his credibility with this.

          It seems pretty clear there was at least two takes of hitting the wall, both times Autopilot was disengaged shortly before impact, and Mark wasn’t honest about it.