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!

  • grumps@lemmy.i.secretponi.es
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    6 hours ago

    I’m surrounded by waymos every time I go out and I can tell you that if they “almost hit you” three times then that’s very likely a you problem – and a reason for more waymos, not fewer.

    Anecdotally, only once have I been in a situation where I’ve said, “do better, robot” because I was slightly inconvenienced by it.

    By the numbers there are very few waymo incidents compared to human drivers and those include waymos being hit by bicyclists who aren’t paying attention.

    • melpomenesclevage@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      5 hours ago

      “if something almost does grievous bodily harm to you, we need more of it, keep playing those odds!”? that seems like a request for me to be harmed.

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        2 hours ago

        Again, based on experience, and the data, if you were exposed to “grievous bodily harm” then it seems like you should change something.

        I don’t know you so I’m not going to suggest you’re making up how you feel about the situation but you definitely don’t sound like you’re expressing an accurate representation of reality.

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          13 minutes ago

          have you ever been hit by a car? maybe try it sometime before you talk about this shit, because you’re being really casual, and I cannot stress how unpleasant an experience it is.

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      4 hours ago

      Uhh, think you could rephrase this so it doesn’t sound like you’re rooting for the Waymo in any Waymo-bicycle accident?