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!

  • rumba@lemmy.zip
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    9 hours ago

    I think Rober just showed us why. Mowing down kids in weather is an unacceptable amount of risk.

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          3 hours ago

          Don’t need to have insurance when anyone hit by a Tesla was a Hamas sympathizer. Then you’re not killing people, you’re killing terrorists for protesting Elon. You can get a presidential pardon for that. /a (maybe? We’re in strange times)