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!

  • Daefsdeda@sh.itjust.works
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    19 days ago

    I agree that this just isn’t a realistic problem, and that there are way more problems with Tesla’s that are much more realistic.

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      18 days ago

      Tell that to the guy who lost his head when his Tesla thought a reflective semi truck was the sky

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          12 days ago

          It’s the same issue, the car not being able to detect a solid object in front of it because of an optical illusion