Auto-Pilot As Smart As Wile E Coyote

“Never underestimate the power of freakin’ lasers!”

Engineer, Youtuber, and laser enthusiast Mark Rober released a new video taking on the self-navigating technology of Tesla cars alongside a few other models with self-driving or collision-avoidance tech.

The video gets into all of the details, but essentially it’s cameras-only (like in the case of Tesla cars) vs more expensive but more reliable technology like lidar. And what happens when you pit these cars against a battery of visibility-augmenting tests like a giant foam wall mocked up to look just like the road beyond it? You start to realize that Teslas may essentially have the intelligence of Wile E Coyote.

Take a look at the findings in the video above. In any case, be safe out there no matter what you’re driving.

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