YouTuber Mark Rober drove a Tesla Model Y on Autopilot at a fake road wall and extreme rain and fog to test it against a Lexus with LiDAR.

Over the weekend, former NASA engineer and YouTuber Mark Rober published a video that sought to demonstrate the difference between Tesla’s camera-only Autopilot system and a vehicle equipped with ...

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 ...

Related: Tesla Spending Millions On Lidar Despite Elon Musk’s Hate For ... but does stop in time when the test is re-run with Autopilot engaged. Next, the two cars have to deal with the dummy ...

YouTuber Mark Rober tested Tesla Model Y in various situations, including one in which he created a fake wall and painted it to look just like the road.

Still, they pointed to several real-world examples—including one where a Tesla on Autopilot plowed through a deer without stopping—as potentially tied to the lack of Lidar. “[LiDAR is] going ...

Tesla Autopilot collided with a painted road on a fake wall located in the middle of the road. This happened during a test comparing cameras and lidar. Most companies developing autonomous driving ...

YouTuber Mark Rober’s experiment reveals Tesla’s camera-based Autopilot struggles against LiDAR-equipped vehicles in adverse driving conditions.

In what seems to be straight out of the Looney Tunes universe, a Tesla on autopilot failed the fake road test. The video of ...

To show the shortcomings of Tesla's Autopilot system, Rober compared a Tesla with a Luminar-enabled Lexus SUV that relies on LIDAR sensors. The test results were stunning: Child Mannequin Test ...

It was essentially a comparison test between Tesla’s camera-only autopilot/FSD system and LiDAR systems, with the LiDAR vehicle running Luminar’s system. The experiment tested whether the cars ...

with Musk once calling LIDAR "fricking stupid, expensive and unnecessary." But by relying only on visual data, Tesla's Autopilot can easily be fooled by anything from heavy fog to a wall-scale ...