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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 […]

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!

  • Ulrich@feddit.orgEnglish
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    5 hours ago

    the tested stopping distance for my car and 60-0 is about 120 feet

    You drive a Corvette or something?

    If you can see any flaws in my logic or math, I’d love to hear it.

    The only mistake I see is that you made it unnecessarily complicated and still arrived at the same answer but stopped short of acknowledging that people cannot possibly drive on a crowded freeway with a football field following distance.

    at the very least, if we’re not in a middle lane and there’s a shoulder, we should at least be able to dodge them if needed.

    And if you are?

    I spent several months refusing to drive over 55 mph

    Run this experiment again at 55MPH and you’ll get similar results.

    just about any accident…is likely avoidable

    “Just about” is doing a lot of work there. I maintain this particular situation is unavoidable.