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.

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      27 days ago

      They already have trouble enough with trucks carrying traffic lights, or with speed limit stickers on them.

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        028 days ago

        and fire trucks. and little kids. and, uh, lots of things really.

        • Echo Dot
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          028 days ago

          I have seen trucks with landscape scenes painted on the side and I’ve never crashed into one of those thinking that it was a portal to a random sunlit field.