Tesla’s self -driving fails with the Wile E. Coyote test

One of the biggest obstacles, figuratively facing self-driving, is the ability to expect the unexpected, quickly identify potential problems and respond in a well-founded way to achieve a safe result. One of the biggest obstacles, literally, facing self-driving, is the giant Wile E. Coyote-style walls, painted to look like a way forward in an attempt to lure them to collapse.

Well, so the latter is unlikely to arise in the real world, but this did not stop the former NASA engineer and the current YouTuber Mark Rober to see how well the self -driving vehicles face the Looney Tunes test. In his most recent video entitled, “Can you mislead yourself driving?“Rober puts two different autonomous vehicle systems-Autopilot only for Tesla computer vision and an unnamed system that uses light detection sensors and scope sensors against another in a series of tests that end in an attempt to stop the vehicle in the track, using the same technique that Wilee E. COYE.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqjl3Htsdyq

At the risk of spoiling the video for you, Tesla leaves a cartoon -large hole in the wall after the autopilot curves exactly through things at about 40 miles per hour.

This is the third failure in six tests that Rober conducts, including a series of experiments that determine whether the control car will mow a child alone if the conditions are unfavorable enough. While Tesla’s autopilot technology manages to stop for a stationary dummy, a dummy who runs before her in the last second, and a dummy who is darkened by dazzling bright lights, to some extent the autonomous system sends the false child just above the bumper when he was hidden by fog and heavy rain. And as unlikely as it is, you will encounter a photorealistic relaxation on the road in front of you, plastered on a wall, fog and rain, it looks like quite common obstacles.

In contrast, Lidara’s system succeeds every time. This should not be too much surprise as the video is low ad for Lidar. Starts with Rober using a portable lidar sensor to map Space Mountain Ride At Disney World, he has a Lidar plug plug, so you knew where all this thing was going from the beginning.

But it is remarkable how effective it is shown that the Lidar system is in the video, as Tesla very publicly decided to give up these sensors in favor of reading entirely on computer vision. Reflections vary depending on who you ask and when, but usually boil The lidar sensors cost too much, requiring more processing of use and ultimately serving as a crutch that slows down the development of computer vision. Tesla Executive Director Elon Musk came to call Lidar A “FoolS “

This may be true, but it also does not transfer through the walls, so I have to weigh the pros and cons. It is difficult to imagine that you are leaving your car to get into a child who can avoid another technology on board and say, “Well, at least this does not slow down the development of the technology, which may not ultimately lead to just that thing that just happened.”

Anyway, the video is very nice to watch, as are Robert’s efforts. And, judging by Answer Robert’s Tweet Showing the stamps of the wall crash, he turned Tesla True Believers into Twitter into conspirates, who believe that Robert was bought by Big Lidar and tries to slander Tesla. So it’s fun.