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Tesla Autopilot drives into Wile E Coyote fake road wall in camera vs lidar test
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Tesla Autopilot drives into Wile E Coyote fake road wall in camera vs lidar test
Fred Lambert | Mar 16 2025 - 10:21 am PT
Tesla Autopilot drove into Wile E. Coyote-style fake road wall in the middle of the road in a camera versus lidar test.
While most companies developing self-driving technologies have been using a mix of sensors (cameras, radar, lidar, and ultrasonic), Tesla insists on only using cameras. … The automaker removed radars from its vehicle lineup and even deactivated radars already installed in existing vehicles. … The strategy has yet to pay off as Tesla’s systems are still stuck at level 2 driver assist systems.
CEO Elon Musk claims that Tesla’s advantage is that once it solves autonomy, it will be able to scale faster than competitors because its vision plus neural net system is designed to work like a human driver and, therefore, will be able to adapt to any road.
Critics have pushed back against those claims, especially since Musk mentioned Tesla achieving “level 5 autonomy”, which means “in any conditions,” and cameras have limitations on that front that are fixed by lidar sensors. … A new video by engineering Youtuber Mark Rober has provided a very interesting demonstration of that very problem:
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Tesla Autopilot drives into Wile E Coyote fake road wall in camera vs lidar test
Fred Lambert | Mar 16 2025 - 10:21 am PT
Tesla Autopilot drove into Wile E. Coyote-style fake road wall in the middle of the road in a camera versus lidar test.
While most companies developing self-driving technologies have been using a mix of sensors (cameras, radar, lidar, and ultrasonic), Tesla insists on only using cameras. … The automaker removed radars from its vehicle lineup and even deactivated radars already installed in existing vehicles. … The strategy has yet to pay off as Tesla’s systems are still stuck at level 2 driver assist systems.
CEO Elon Musk claims that Tesla’s advantage is that once it solves autonomy, it will be able to scale faster than competitors because its vision plus neural net system is designed to work like a human driver and, therefore, will be able to adapt to any road.
Critics have pushed back against those claims, especially since Musk mentioned Tesla achieving “level 5 autonomy”, which means “in any conditions,” and cameras have limitations on that front that are fixed by lidar sensors. … A new video by engineering Youtuber Mark Rober has provided a very interesting demonstration of that very problem:
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Mainly because Space Mountain was the first rollercoaster my son begged to go on (he was 7) and he spent the entire ride hunched behind me, wanting off as soon as it started… I thought he was scarred for life but we recently did Busch Gardens to ride the Scorpion on its last day and he’s been on every rollercoaster there except Montu.
The LIDAR recreation of the ride was awesome, but the camera vs LIDAR auto-driving thing was even better. One more reason Tesla’s goose is cooked, I imagine. I wonder if this guy is embarrassed he owns that car now. 
