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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    If I’m being so dense tell me why the companies aren’t using it.

    You mean company singular. It’s literally only Tesla that don’t use lidar every other car manufacturer uses it. So the answer is because Elon wants to save every last single penny. There is no grand conspiracy here for you to uncover it is literally that Tesla are cheapskates.

    And you are being deliberately dense because this has been explained to you ad infinitum and you still don’t seem to get it.

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      It’s literally only Tesla that don’t use lidar every other car manufacturer uses it.

      I’ve not seen any of that in the wild around me. Car sales are kinda shit in the US for the past year tho. guess I’m behind on what’s out there. Economy what it is it’s been a couple years since I’ve looked at getting a car.