Mark Rober just set up one of the most interesting self-driving tests of 2025, and he did it by imitating Looney Tunes. The former NASA engineer and current YouTube mad scientist recreated the classic gag where Wile E. Coyote paints a tunnel onto a wall to fool the Road Runner.

Only this time, the test subject wasn’t a cartoon bird… it was a self-driving Tesla Model Y.

The result? A full-speed, 40 MPH impact straight into the wall. Watch the video and tell us what you think!

  • Tja
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    15 hours ago

    They never had lidar, as far as I know.

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        7 hours ago

        The lidar car in the video is a modified Lexus prototype (came with radar from factory, modified by a third party, with Lexus branding blacked out and replaced with the third party name)

        Afaik at the moment there are no cars in the market that have lidar (waymo is adding lidar to cars that have only radar as stock)

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          5 hours ago

          I think some Chinese ones do (nio?), but definitely not tesla