Mark Rober’s Tesla video was more than a little weird
During the weekend, former NASA engineer and YouTube Mark Rober posted a video that sought to show the difference between the Autopilot camera only the camera in Tesla and a Lidar car. He wanted to see if the vehicles would stop automatically before reaching a Coyote Wile E.
Alerting the spoiler: the vehicle brakes equipped with the mechanism before it collided with the wall, while the Tesla model is digging through it.
The video was a great success, as it collected 10 million views in just two days. Many people praised Robert to expose the risks offered by the Tesla driver’s naming system. But others accused Robert of falsifying the video, pointing to a number of contradictions. Some claimed that the video was a secret trick for Tesla’s enemies to undermine the mission of Elon Musk to advanced self -driving cars, thanks to the comprehensive promotion of the aluminar throughout the video. I contacted Robert to find out if he wanted to treat any of these claims, but I haven’t heard yet.
Personally, I face ROBER video address, “Can you deceive a self -driving car.” It was not vehicle in the self -driving test. Autopilot, the advantage of helping the first generation driver of Tesla, does not enable a car to drive itself. Tesla warns drivers against participating and paying attention to the road while using the automated pilot. Robert is the victim of this classic error: mixing the advanced driver’s help with self -driving. We were all there.
Let’s see if we can address some other problems as well.
Claim No. 1: The automated pilot is not under test
Most of the criticisms of the Rober video are located in the buckets who believe it’s fake test to make Tesla look bad. They notice that Autopilot does not seem to participate during the moment when the car crashes through the fake wall, citing pictures of the central screen of the car that lacks Telltale graphics – blue index lines and rainbow roads – that signal when Autopilot is played.
The noise became so loudly that Robe eventually responded by launching “raw shots” for the test that already appears that the automated pilot was working a few seconds before the accident.
Claim No. 2: Autopilot disintegrate directly before the effect
But wait! Nasron viewers note that the automated pilot seems to decompose the second division before influence. Tesla defenders claim that Robert’s hands on the steering wheel actually disintegrate the system, while the most thinking people wonder if this is actually a huge scandal. Is Autopilot programmed by Tesla to stop moments before crashing to avoid blaming?
Yes and no. This aspect of the automated pilot is known for many years. Robert did not reveal this, but this does not make it less shape.
In 2022, the National Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) issued an investigation into dozens of accidents in which Tesla drivers were shattered, while using the automated pilot, in fixed emergency vehicles that were parked on the side of the road. In 16 of those incidents, investigators discovered that Autopilot “was thwarted by vehicles under the second effect before the first effect.”
Many critics assume that this is Tesla’s way to avoid blame on it when its automated pilot system fails to respond to an imminent accident. And yes, I can see what it definitely looks like this. But NHTSA found no evidence indicating that the intentions of Tesla were thorny. It should be noted that the disruption that occurs within five seconds is canceled by the activation of the automated pilot is still registered by Tesla as a fold shatter.
Claim No. 3: The automated pilot is an old system
Tesla fans also faced Rober’s use of Autopilot to test, noting that the system has not been updated for years and that the fully -driving TESLA feature (FSD) is the most modern and capable system.
But if the purpose of the ROBER video is to detect the difference between the TESLA Camera approach only in self -driving and those who depend on the cameras alongside LIDAR and other sensors, it is not really logical to criticize its use to create the automated pilot. FSD may be more technologically mature than an automatic pilot, but it still depends on the same cameras as its predecessor.
Tesla badly removed the front radar facing the front and ultrasound sensors from its vehicles in 2021 in favor of the new “Vision Tesla” approach. A number of engineers raised objections at that time – only to cancel musk.
FSD certainly has a more sophisticated programs, which have been trained on comprehensive nervous networks to include the city’s driving scenarios, the highway and parking lots. It is easy to launch a post on the X claiming that the system would have been hit before it runs to the fake Rober wall. But he could have made the same error. After all, this is the same company that Autopilot has known it difficult to discover truck trailers that cross the car course and did nothing to fix.
Claim No. 4: There were many taking
In the original video posted on YouTube, Rober Autopilot participates while traveling at 39 miles per hour. But in the “raw shots” that it posted on X, the system is activated at a speed of 42 miles per hour – which raises speculation that there are multiple cans and that Rober increases the drama of its fans on YouTube.
What I would like to say, yes, not shit. If you really think YouTube with 65 million followers do not take multiple in each video before publishing, I have some beautiful coastal properties to sell you in Ohio.
Claim No. 5: It was Sponcon
The emergence of the Lidar Luminar logo throughout the video raised questions about whether the company has pushed the company by the company to promote its technology. Luminar has conducted its own TESLA tests in the past to show the advantages of the laser sensor on the camera system only. As noted Tesla Canada leadershipLuminar even promoted the Rober video on his website before removing it.
In video notes, he thanks Rober Luminar for using his car equipped with Lidar but notice that “no compensation has been provided, and this is not paid promotion.”
Claim No. 6: The pixel phone has been taken in the video
Rober is supposed to use the Pixel to photograph some shots inside the vehicles, but some X users notice that “G” on the back of the phone is vertical even when the phone is in the landscape, which prompted some to speculate that it is already depicted with iPhone. Rober use Pixel phones in previous videos, but there is no male for Google as a sponsor of the video.
Yes, I didn’t get anything here. It looks very dirty. I notice that the use of Photoshop in a video clip without revealing it for your audience opens many good questions about what you might deal with.
Claim No. 7: The hole in the wall was fake
This is one hole in the form of coloring, if you see one ever. If you are already registering the opening, you are clearly planning to lead it. This is all people.
