Self-Driving Tesla Crashes into Wall Painted to Look Like a Road… Just Months Before Planned Robotaxi Launch - FuelArc News
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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 […]

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!

  • elephantium@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    18 hours ago

    I found this article. My takeaways were:

    1. No driving in bus lanes during certain times of day.
    2. No using the shoulder as a turn lane.
    3. No using a bike lane as a turn lane.
        • conditional_soup@lemm.eeEnglish
          4·
          11 hours ago

          I think their regs, while seemingly very basic rules of the road, are based because I live in the US and we have bike lanes here that just whole ass turn into turn lanes with almost no warning. I wish we could get basic decency for everyone on the road, too.

          • elephantium@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            3 hours ago

            Ah, gotcha, yeah, that makes sense.

            My own city has pretty good bike lane coverage, but it’s similar – cars have to cross over the bike lane to get into the turn lane.

            Basic decency…gah. Yeah, I wish. :(