Viral video exposes potentially dangerous flaw in crucial Tesla feature: 'Didn't even hit the brakes at all'

Viral video exposes potentially dangerous flaw in crucial Tesla feature: 'Didn't even hit the brakes at all'

YouTuber and former NASA engineer Mark Rober (@MarkRober) just went viral after testing whether his Tesla would fall for a cartoon-style prank in a YouTube video. He painted a fake road on a wall, Roadrunner and Wile E. Coyote-style, and drove his Tesla straight at it to see if Autopilot would hit the brakes.  "I'm doing this to see if Tesla's autopilot can be tricked," Rober says in the video. "Because it famously only relies on simple cameras …

Someone Else Tested Whether a Tesla Will Really Crash Into a Wall Painted Like a Road

Earlier this month, YouTuber and former NASA engineer Mark Rober released a video titled "Can You Fool a Self Driving Car?" which showed a Tesla on Autopilot getting fooled by a Wile E. Coyote-style wall painted to look like the road ahead of it. High frame-rate footage shows the vehicle plowing right through the styrofoam obstruction, an eyebrow-raising demonstration of the company relying exclusively on video feeds for its driver assistance so…

YouTuber Tests Whether Tesla Cybertruck is Fooled by Giant Photo of a Road

Another YouTuber built a Wile E. Coyote-style photo wall to find out whether Teslas can be fooled into crashing into them, the way Mark Rober so spectacularly did last week.

Tesla’s driving assistance system, also badly called the Autonomous Driving System (FSD), has been at the centre of controversy for the past few days. A week ago a famous American YouTuber posted on his channel a video in which he successfully tried to fool the FSD system by using a false wall. The video, which already accumulates more than 17 million views, has generated much controversy. Now, another American YouTuber, has repeated the tests w…

Wile E. Coyote returns: 2nd YouTuber tries fake wall trick with Tesla Autopilot with a different outcome

Sue Thatcher via iStockEarlier this month, a YouTuber named Mark Rober pitted Tesla Autopilot and a LiDAR-equipped Lexus against a painted wall à la Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner. The goal? Rober wanted to fool the self-driving features to see if the vehicles would identify the obstacle and stop in time. Spoiler: the Tesla failed the test. However, that didn’t stop another YouTuber from recreating the cartoony experiment with a Model Y and …

YouTuber tests Tesla's FSD system, raises questions about detection capabilities

Another YouTuber has taken on the challenge of testing Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (FSD) system against a deceptive fake wall test following a viral video that raised concerns about the technology’s ability to detect certain hazards. Kyle Paul, a content creator, conducted his own experiment and posted the results on Thursday, featuring two Tesla models with different hardware and software configurations. Paul’s test aimed to evaluate whether Tesl…