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!

  • Wispy2891@lemmy.world
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    19 hours ago

    Yes absolutely interesting and weirdly he put way more effort on the “irrelevant” part of the video (I don’t think that the lidar cloud automatically becomes a 3d printable object, especially as perfect as shown in the video, with uniform and smooth rail tracks, usually that’s a painstaking manual step)

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      5 hours ago

      I didn’t think the video was suggesting it automatically became a 3D object, just that lidar was used to map out the ride in a 3D space.