Mark Rober's video showcased a Tesla on Autopilot crashing through a painted wall, igniting controversy over the company's camera-centric approach to driver assistance. In response videos by other YouTubers, including Kyle Paul, demonstrated similar results with different Tesla models. Although fans defended the technology's integrity, critics raised alarms about the reliance on visual feeds while competitors apply LIDAR and radar. Notably, a Cybertruck with an upgraded camera system successfully detected the obstacle, indicating potential for improvement in autonomous detection capabilities but highlighting issues still present in older models.
"See the wall, does not see the wall," Paul noted after slamming the brakes and slowly inching toward the wall, which was similarly painted to look like the horizon. "Starting to see its own shadow on the wall, and if I get really close, about touching it, it sees the wall."
"With no doubt, the Model Y would have gone through the wall," he concluded. "I had to break full force because I saw that the camera, the visualization, was not seeing the wall."
The controversial video kicked off a heated debate surrounding Tesla's driver assistance tech, with fanboys crying foul, arguing Rober should've used the company's more sophisticated - and very expensive - Full Self-Driving (FSD) software.
High frame-rate footage shows the vehicle plowing right through the styrofoam obstruction, an eyebrow-raising demonstration of the company relying exclusively on video feeds for its driver assistance software.
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