Tesla on Autopilot hits the wall, destroyed mannequins in viral video, but is it legitimate?

YouTube Mark Rober published a video at the weekend, in which it was claimed to show Tesla's autopilot system that Tesla's autopilot system is not as good as on lidar-based systems.

In 2021, Tesla only pursued his controversy approach for cameras, while many other companies also use lidar sensors for cameras. In 2019, CEO Elon Musk called Lidar “A Fool's worried” and claimed that everyone who rely on Lidar is doomed to fail. Failure! [They are] Expensive sensors that are unnecessary, “said Techcrunch.

Rober, a former NASA engineer, conducts six tests on the two vehicles. The Lidar vehicle receives a perfect score, while the Tesla model Y fails in three miserably. It runs over a child's manure dolls under foggy conditions and another in heavy rain, while the Lidar vehicle brakes. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is currently examining Tesla for four accidents under conditions with low visibility.

The video culminates in what Rober “calls the only test”. The Tesla drives into a large foam wall on the street, which is covered with a picture of a street, Wile E. Coyote style. It does not recognize the visual trick and the visual brake, while the vehicle equipped with lidar does this.

“Nobody distributes bonus points to companies that only get by cameras,” says Edwin Olson, CEO of the Autonomous Vehicle Company May Mobility. “Why don't you want the best of several sensor types so that you can create an even safer system?”

Many praised Rober for unveiling the below -average system of Tesla, while others immediately hurried to defend the company. One edition is the title of the video: “Can you deceive a self -driving car?” However, model Y in the tests does not have the complete self -driving software from Tesla. It costs 8,000 US dollars a year so that we can see why Rober would not like to test it.

Instead, he seems to test the automatic braking functionality that is delivered with autopilot, a less advanced autonomous driving product. It is still scary to see how the vehicle carries out two mannequins, but it is unclear whether the test is a fair technical comparison. Although a Tesla Cybertruck pushed onto a pole with full self -driving self -driving rod last month.

Some skeptical spectators claim that autopilot is not engaged when the vehicle pushed into the wall. These accusations prompted Rober to publish the “raw material” in an X -Post that shows the characteristic signs that autopilot is hired, e.g. B. a rainbow road that appears on the dashboard.

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Others described the video as a paid action by Luminar, the company that made the Lidar system available. It is the same technology that supplies autonomous driving functions in the Volvo EX90 and the ES90 with electricity. Rober denies this claim and wrote in the video description that Luminar “made the vehicle available for test purposes, but was not given compensation and this is not a paid action”.

We got ourselves to Luminar robe [YouTube video] Description. “According to Techcrunch, Tesla is actually the largest customer from Luminar in a turn. She probably uses the sensors in his test vehicles.

Some have also criticized Rober for this, he advertises his own product in the video description, an educational subscription for children. With 13.5 million views on the video at the time of this letter and frequent advertisements, he probably deserves a nice salary check.

Tesla did not answer the video. It is planned to start your first Robotaxi business in Austin in June, as it is a corporate pitch that focuses on self-sufficiency.

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