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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    22 months ago

    Sounds like Rober gets to repeat this with a cinderblock wall and use the car as a tax write off then.

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      42 months ago

      Sounds like Tesla fans should repeat this with cinderblock walls to show us how fake it was.

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      2 months ago

      Hopefully with a Mythbusters-style remote control setup in case it explodes. And the trunk filled with ANFO to make sure it does.