In the piece — titled “Can You Fool a Self Driving Car?” — Rober found that a Tesla car on Autopilot was fooled by a Wile E. Coyote-style wall painted to look like the road ahead of it, with the electric vehicle plowing right through it instead of stopping.
The footage was damning enough, with slow-motion clips showing the car not only crashing through the styrofoam wall but also a mannequin of a child. The Tesla was also fooled by simulated rain and fog.
inb4 musk bricks his car remotely
They sort of do with the super chargers already. If someone has a car that’s deemed to damaged its disconnected
I don’t think he’s actually driving it. Might even have been a rental.
He said it was his own car when he was interviewing with Phillip DeFranco. He also said he’s still planning on getting another Tesla when an updated model comes out.
I think it’s Rober’s own, I remember him doing videos in the past testing it out.