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Youtuber compares a Lexus equipped with Lidar with a Tesla camera -based assistance technology to see which dummies demolish

of Chris Chilton

4 hours ago

Tesla’s refusal to team his cars with Lidar sensors It is deeply controversial, some technology experts claiming that the company’s dependence makes cars less safe than rivals. Now, a Youtuber has put this statement with hilarious – and terrifying results.

Mark Rober has conducted a series of experiments to compare how well his own Tesla Y model is and a Lexus RX equipped with Lidar, modified by Luminari rates when it was presented with different dangers in which the wrong consequence is to beat a dummy to the size of the child.

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In the first test, the dummy is simply standing on the road, and Lexus observes without any problem at 40 mph (64 km/h). However, Tesla floats right in the fake child when it is based only on its emergency automatic braking system, but stops when the test is re-performed with the autopilot employed.

Next, the two cars have to deal with the mannequin coming out of a parked car and they both pass. Tesla did not score so well when the child was dark by fog and rain in the next two tests, but perhaps surprisingly, avoided a collision when facing dazzling lights that simulated a low sunset.

Then the end came and, unlike the other tests, it is not remotely representative for something that could happen to you on the street unless you live in a Roadrunner cartoon in the 1960s. The two SUVs are directly driven to a huge foam brick wall, which was painted to show what is in it. Think about the ways that Hollywood did before doing everything with CGI.

With the help of his Lidar sensors, Lexus rises easily, because his sensors do not see what is on the wall, but only that there is a wall. And Tesla? I am sure I will not ruin the surprise when I tell you that the model Y blows through those foam blocks, as if he played in a TV show with small rents and demolished the mannequin behind her.

I have prepared this video to start at the car testing section, but you may want to watch everything if you’ve ever ridden Mount Space Disney and you have wondered how a dark walk near Pitch is actually. With the help of wearing lidar technologies hidden under the jacket, Rober grinds the trip and then has a 3D printed.

Lead image: Mark Rober/YouTube