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.
I don’t think he’s actually driving it. Might even have been a rental.
He said it was his own car when he was interviewing with Phillip DeFranco. He also said he’s still planning on getting another Tesla when an updated model comes out.
I think it’s Rober’s own, I remember him doing videos in the past testing it out.
sometimes, engineers might be brilliant engineers without being the most practical of people.
This is practically what rentals are made for! (ahwell. explains why they used foam with break-away cuts. lol)