Youtuber Mark Rober Tests Cameras Vs. Lidar And Gets It Wrong

YouTuber Crashes Tesla Into Fake Road Wall, Fooling Vehicle Cameras In Misleading Video - Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA)

Former NASA engineer and YouTuber Mark Rober pitted Tesla Inc's (NASDAQ:TSLA) Autopilot system against a lidar system from Luminar Technologies Inc (NASDAQ:LAZR) in his latest video. Although the road conditions were terrible, the results were clear, but there's a catch.

YouTuber runs a Tesla through a fake wall to poke a hole in its camera-only, no LiDAR strategy

The Tesla ran straight into a wall painted to look like its surroundings. A non-Tesla with LiDAR stopped easily....

Youtuber Mark Rober Tests Cameras Vs. Lidar And Gets It Wrong

He tested Tesla's obsolete driver-assist system, not their prototype (though not yet working) self-driving system, and his tests were pretty artificial.

Tesla Autopilot 'Fooled' Wile E. Coyote-Style, Crashes Into Fake Wall

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Tesla Autopilot drives into Wile E Coyote fake road wall in camera vs lidar test

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

Tesla cameras versus the Wile E. Coyote test.

Can you trick a Tesla’s camera-based Autopilot system, which has been linked to hundreds of crashes, using simulated rain, fog? Will it barrel through a wall covered in an image of the road beyond, like Looney Tunes’ Wile E. Coyote slamming into the Road Runner’s fake tunnels? Yes you can, according to Engineer and YouTuber Mark Rober’s testing. (Bonus: Rober also uses LiDAR to map Disney’s pitch-black Space Mountain coaster. ) [Media: https://w…