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.
props to the LiDAR car for trying to drive through that heavy rain - does it just have enough resolution to see through the droplets to determine that there isn’t a solid object within braking distance?
EDIT: actually maybe it didn’t, and just stopped when it realised that it couldn’t see through the water?
Maybe because water is transparent? can lidar see glass? That’d be an interesting one, Tesla and Lidar car vs large sheet of acrylic.