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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    17 hours ago

    It basically already happened in the Mark Rober video, it turns off by itself less than a second before hitting

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      He needs to post footage of it turning off as he drives. An uninterrupted one-camera take from start to crash to finish.

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        He did, I don’t have the link unfortunately but he did post the unedited take from inside the car where you can see it turn off