Tesla’s autonomous guide deceived by a painted wall? The test that makes you discuss

The system of Autonomous Autopilot Guide of Tesla It relies exclusively to the cameras to detect obstacles and follow paths. But how much it is reliable Really? This is what the ex-engineer NASA and YouTuber Mark Rober asked himself, who decided to test him: according to what is clear from his video (see below), would have painted a wall with the image of a free road in front, In perfect Willy style the Coyote, managing to trick The car that, in “autonomous guide” mode, crashed without even mentioning a braking.

Vision problems?

Tesla has anal eliminated sensors like radar (system that uses radio waves to detect the distance of objects) e Lidar (who uses laser impulses to create three -dimensional maps of the surrounding environments), defining them – according to Elon Musk – “stupid, expensive and useless”. However, according to Rober’s test, The only cameras may not be enough to avoid ambiguous situations or visual illusions.

The disturbing result (but to be verified)

In his experiment Rober compared the Tesla Autopilot with a Lexus car equipped with Lidar (provided by the Luminar company). The lexus would have brilliantly passed all the testsincluding those with rain And fogWhile The Tesla, as you can see in the video, overwhelmed a mannequin that simulated a child and ignored the obstacle when immersed in one fog artificial.

Cartoon scenario, real consequences

The published video would highlight one significant vulnerability in the systemjust as Tesla’s number one, Elon Musk, announces for this year a version of the “non-supervised” full self-driveing ​​(ie without necessary human supervisor) and a future service of robotaxi.

In short, if all you see from the video is not the result of manipulations or alterations (and to say the truth there is no obvious clue that leads to thinking it) this would raise serious questions about the safety of autonomous cars based exclusively on artificial vision.