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!

  • teuto@lemmy.teuto.icu
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    16 hours ago

    According to Ol’ Elon the robo-taxi service has been a couple months away since 2017 or so. I can’t imagine it’s much closer now than then.

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      7 hours ago

      I think Rober just showed us why. Mowing down kids in weather is an unacceptable amount of risk.

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            54 minutes ago

            Don’t need to have insurance when anyone hit by a Tesla was a Hamas sympathizer. Then you’re not killing people, you’re killing terrorists for protesting Elon. You can get a presidential pardon for that. /a (maybe? We’re in strange times)