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Man Tests If Tesla Autopilot Will Crash Into Wall Painted to Look Like Road
Buy-n-Shoot NewsIn a damning new video, YouTuber and former NASA engineer Mark Rober has perfectly demonstrated why Tesla relying entirely on visual data from a suite of cameras isn't such a good idea for driver-assistance tech. The Elon Musk-led EV maker has given up entirely on LIDAR or radar sensors, which its many competitors have been using for object detection for years now. The CEO has previously called LIDAR "fricking stupid, expensive and unnecessary." By relying only on visual data, Tesla's Autopilot can easily be fooled by anything from heavy fog to a wall-scale painting of the road ahead. It's an […]
