At the end of the week, a former NASA engineer and YouTuber Mark Rober published a video that tried to show the difference between Tesla’s only camera only an auto -pilot system and a leather -equipped vehicle. He wanted to see if the Wile E. Covote -style wall would be stopped automatically before hitting the wall, which was painted to look like a road.
Spilller Alert: Before colliding with the wall, the brakes of vehicles equipped with leather, while the Tesla model Y shakes through it.
The video was a huge hit movie, which collected 10 million ideas in just two days. Praised a lot of people Rober to expose the risks posed by the Tesla’s driver’s assist system. But others accused Robert of making a number of irregularities making the video fake. Some people claim that this video is a secret trick to modernize the mission of Elon Musk by Tesla’s enemies, which thanks to the extensive development of luminar throughout the video. I arrived at Rober to see if he wanted to resolve any of these claims but not yet heard.
Personally, I release Rober’s video, “Can you fool a self -run car?” No vehicle in the test was driving itself. The auto pilot, which features Tesla’s first -generation driver’s help, does not enable the car itself. And Tesla actually warns drivers to engage using the auto pilot and pay attention to the road. Rober is suffering from this classic error: counter -driving with self -driving. We are all there.
Let’s see if we can solve some of the other matters.
Claim 1: Auto Pilot is not issued during the test
Most of the criticisms of Rober’s video are in the bucket of people who think that he has fake the test to make Tesla look bad. They noted that the auto pilot does not appear to be busy at the moment when the vehicle collides with a fake wall, referring to photos of the car’s main display, which lacks the telt graphics – blue indicator lines and a rainbow road – when the auto pilot is released.
The noise came so loud Rober finally responded by issuing the “raw footage” of the test This really shows that the auto pilot was busy in a few seconds for a few seconds.
Claim 2: Lose the auto pilot before the effect
But wait! Eagle -eyed audience notes that the auto pilot appears to separate the spiral before the effect. Tesla’s guards claim that Rober’s hands actually end the system on the steering wheel, while more conspiracy folk surprise If this is actually a huge scandal. Has the auto pilot been programmed by Tesla to close the moment before an accident so that the charges can be avoided?
Yes and no This aspect of the auto pilot has been known for many years. Rober did not naked it, but that does not make it less questionable.
In 2022, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) Issued an inquiry In dozens of incidents, including the Tesla driver, using auto pilot, crashed into emergency vehicles that were parked on the side of the road. In 16 of these cracks, investigators discovered that the auto -pilot “less than a second was controlled by less than a second before the first effect.”
Many critics believe that when its auto -pilot system fails to respond to an ascension accident, it is Tesla’s way to avoid accusations. And yes, I can see how it definitely looks like this. But the NHTSA did not find any evidence that showed that Tesla’s intentions were blasphemous. And it is worth noting that the accident within five seconds of the auto -pilot is still pending Registered as an auto -pilot accident by Tesla.
Claim number 3: Auto Pilot is an outdated system
Tesla fans also raised the problem with the use of Rober’s auto pilot for tests, noting that the system has not been updated over the years and that Tesla’s full self -driving (FSD) feature is the latest and capable system.
But if the purpose of Rober’s video was to expose the only camera’s approach and leather and other sensors as well as the difference of cameras for self -driving, then criticizing the use of their auto pilot does not really mean. The FSD can be more technically stronger than the auto pilot, but it still relies on the same cameras as its predecessors.
In 2021, Tesla notoriously removed the radar and ultrasonic sensor facing the forward in 2021 in favor of the new “Tesla Vision” approach. At that time, several engineers raised objections. Be subdued only by musk.
Certainly, the FSD has a more sophisticated software stack, which is trained on nervous networks from end to end to add the city, highway, and parking lot driving scenes. It is easy to fire a post on X, which claims that the system breaks down before running into the fake wall of Ruber. But that could make the same mistake. However, this is the same company that knew that the auto pilot had difficulty detecting truck trailers in crossing the vehicle’s route and did nothing to fix it.
Claim No. 4: Taken multiple
In the original video posted on YouTube, Rober is busy traveling on the auto pilot while traveling on 39mph. But in the “raw footage” posted on X, the system has been activated at 42mph – the speculation has been increased that they take more than one and that Robier is increasing the drama for his YouTube audience.
Which I will say, yes, no filth. If you really think that YouTobar with 65 million followers is not working more than one video before publishing, I have some beautiful beach property to sell you in Ohio.
Claim number 5: It was spinon
Screenshot: Drive Tesla Canada
The importance of the logo of Leather Company Luminar throughout the video has raised questions as to whether the company was paid to promote his technology. And Luminar has in the past conducted its tests against Tesla’s vehicles to only show the benefits of laser sensors on the system only. As noted Drive Tesla CanadaLuminar promoted even Rober’s video on his website before he was removed.
In the video notes, the Rober Laminar thanks for the use of a car equipped with his leather but notes that “no compensation was paid, and this is not a salary growth.”
Claim number 6: Pixel phone photoshop in the video
It is understood that Rober has used a pixel phone to film some shots inside the cars, but some users on X notic that “g” is vertical in the back of the phone even when the phone is in the landscape, which causes some people. Speculate that he is actually filmmaking with the iPhone. Robber has used a pixel phones in past videos, but Google is not mentioned as a video sponsorship.
Yes, I didn’t find anything here. It takes a lot of sloppy. And I would note that using Photoshop in a video without revealing your audience gives you a lot of legitimate questions about what else you can do.
Claim number 7: The hole in the wall was fake
If I have ever seen it is a Loni Tones -shaped hole. If you are already scoring the hole, it seems clear that you are planning to go through. These are all people.
