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Can You Fool A Self Driving Car?

Mark Rober · 35.9M views · 2025-03-15 · 18:54

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Mark Rober tests whether self-driving cars can be fooled, comparing a lidar-equipped car with a camera-only Tesla in scenarios including a painted Wile E. Coyote wall and smoke.

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HN uses it as the reference demonstration in lidar versus camera debates, though some critics fault its methodology and style.

Recommended by 2 HN people across 2 months · HN mentions 2025–2026

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Self-driving & autonomous vehiclesEveryday physics & science demos
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rudolftheone · 2025-09 · Recommendation

Here's a good demonstration why LIDAR SHOULD be implemented instead of what Tesla tries to sell: [VIDEO]

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vault · 2025-04 · Recommendation

My opinion is that skipping lidar is nonsense. Check Mark Rober's video, published one month ago, "Can You Fool A Self Driving Car?" where he compares a Tesla with other Lidar-equipped cars: [VIDEO]

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consumer451 · 2026-01 · Reference

I am just some schmoe, but optics alone can be easily spoofed as any fan of the Wile E. Coyote has known for decades. [0] What's crazy to me is that anyone would think that anything short of ASI could take image based world understanding to true FSD. Tesla tried to replicate human response, ~"because humans only have eyes" but largely without even stereoscopic vision, ffs. [0] [VIDEO]

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