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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    20 hours ago

    You’re car’s not driving indoors at 1mph with the maximum damage being tapping but not marring the wall or vehicle.

    You need high speed, bright lasers, and immense computation to handle outdoor, fast, dangerous work