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00:00I'm gonna try and trick my Tesla's autopilot into running through this Wile E. Coyote painted brick wall
00:06Because unlike other cars that use sensors like radar or LIDAR to see Tesla's famously only rely on simple optical
00:12Cameras for its autopilot. Now to a human driver while that sort of looks convincing the image processing in our brains is advanced enough
00:19We pick up on the minor visual inconsistencies
00:21And we wouldn't hit it and then a car with LIDAR will of course stop because it's just using a point cloud that detects a wall
00:27Without seeing the painted image at all. So while my clever ruse is no match for a human or a LIDAR sensor
00:33Question is can I trick my Tesla running straight through that wall?
00:38Well as a firm believer in the scientific method, there's only one way to find out
00:42TURNS OUT MY TESLA IS LESS ROAD RUNNER MORE WILEY COYOTE