In the piece — titled “Can You Fool a Self Driving Car?” — Rober found that a Tesla car on Autopilot was fooled by a Wile E. Coyote-style wall painted to look like the road ahead of it, with the electric vehicle plowing right through it instead of stopping.

The footage was damning enough, with slow-motion clips showing the car not only crashing through the styrofoam wall but also a mannequin of a child. The Tesla was also fooled by simulated rain and fog.

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    16 hours ago

    They used to have it but Elmo removed it years ago as a cost cutting move.

    Now they’re the only self driving car that drives into immovable objects.

    You might remember a few years ago a guy got decapitated when his Model S drove straight into the side of a semi trailer.

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      16 hours ago

      To be clear, Elon Musk removed radar from Tesla vehicles and not Lidar, but a) he had it removed even from vehicles that had the hardware for radar and b) radar would have been enough to pass all the tests in the video anyway.