Earlier this week, former NASA engineer and YouTuber Mark Rober posted a video where he tried to see if he could trick a Tesla Model Y using its Autopilot driver-assist function into driving ...

Before we get into the very-serious issue of whether or not Tesla's Autopilot ... scope of Autopilot (adaptive cruise control paired with a self-steering lane-keep function that can accelerate ...

Over the weekend, former NASA engineer and YouTuber Mark Rober published a video that sought to demonstrate the difference between Tesla’s camera-only Autopilot system and a vehicle equipped with ...

In the 18-minute-53-second video mentioned above, Mark Rober tested whether Tesla's autopilot function could be "tricked" because it used "simple camera tools" for self-driving functionality ...

A group of Tesla fans and investors has inadvertently exposed Tesla’s shadiness regarding crashes involving Autopilot by attempting to claim that the advanced driver-assist system was not active ...

YouTuber Mark Rober is facing backlash over a recent video that depicted a spectacular “crash test” of Tesla’s Autopilot feature — with critics claiming it was a hoax orchestrated to hurt ...

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 ...

"DOT has the chance to close safety gaps and ensure that technological advances translate into real-world benefits for consumers–and it must not pass up this opportunity," Consumer Reports wrote.

But by relying only on visual data, Tesla's Autopilot can easily be fooled by anything from heavy fog to a wall-scale painting of the road ahead, as Rober showed in his latest video. It's an ...

The buzz of the self-driving world this week was a video by Mark Rober, one YouTube’s biggest stars, comparing Tesla’s camera-based Autopilot to a LIDAR equipped car with some obstacles ...

YouTuber Mark Rober put his Tesla Model Y’s Autopilot technology to the test by setting up a Looney Toons-style trap. Rober set up styrofoam wall with a picture of a road on it, the middle of an ...

Tesla Autopilot drove into Wile E. Coyote-style fake road wall in the middle of the road in a camera versus lidar test. While most companies developing self-driving technologies have been using a ...