in cars and as you might have guessed this car automatically saved itself from crashing because it uses a lidar sensor which as you can imagine would have saved wiley coyote a lot of pain over the years and the reason it works so well is because it's updating that point cloud of 640,000 laser measurements every second to the brain of this car showing exactly what's in front of it in fact it works so well as you can see here i can maneuver all around these obstacles in real time with all the windows blacked out, looking just at that point cloud in a VR headset. Okay, easy bike guy. My Tesla on autopilot, however, only relies on simple cameras and its image processing to navigate the world. So to see if that tech is just too simple, we came up with a six-part LIDAR versus camera head-to-head face-off, culminating in a history-making first Tesla versus cartoon physics test. Okay, so we're starting out with a car with the LIDAR.
First test is just kids standing in the road. Not sure why he's doing that. It's very unsafe. So we want to be extra careful.
Okay, hit it. The testing speed was 40 miles an hour. Should have put my seatbelt on. Which meant the LIDAR would have to detect the kid and then slam on the brakes at least 60 feet in front of him. And it turned out, that's all it needed.
now it was tesla's turn this is a terrible feeling driving straight into kit but this is for science all right we are up to speed and with just simple cameras the tesla was speeding fast but did detect the kit Just not in time to fully hit the brakes. Oh no! He was even a Crunch Labs fan! Now if you're a Tesla owner, there is a silver lining.
Because we were relying on the automatic emergency braking system to stop for the car. And because- it assumes the driver's paying full attention while fully driving the car it only hits the brakes when it's 100 sure there's a problem in order to avoid false positives so the alternative is to use autopilot and that assumes the driver isn't paying much attention and while the downside is you get way more fans phantom braking, and false positives. That was ridiculous. The upside is you're less likely to be charged with vehicular manslaughter. Because you can see here on autopilot, it actually stopped in time.
So I decided to be nice and call the score one to one. And then I'd be even nicer by using the more conservative autopilot on the Tesla for all the remaining tests. Such as this one, where we would now simulate the kid dashing out from behind a parked car using some clever engineering, giving the cars less than a second to identify the mannequin and stop himself. Here we go.
Getting up to speed. Oh, a ball came out. I wonder why that happened. Oh, kid!
Another Liesse Now it's the Tessler's turn on auto pipe 40 miles an hour It's the ball and it pressably stopped with plenty room spare good job slow which meant we were all tied up heading into round three The fog round with my own eyes I can no longer see that there's a kid through this fog The lighter snow issue this will be interesting Okay, here we go. A little wall of fog. So we plunge through the fog, coming to a very sudden break.
Hey! After which we saw the mannequin was not only still standing, but it was casting a really cool long shadow. Because the lasers don't pass through solid objects, just like how you can cast a long shadow with the sun, because light doesn't pass through solid objects.
I don't have high hopes here. here but would the kid look just as cool after the tesla test oh oh oh fudge i mean sort of cool but that wasn't the only shot i actually hit the brake brakes there that was on autopilot the cameras didn't even hit the brakes at all the only thing still on is the pants that was a bad one and now the lidar had taken another W time to make it rain the next test would see if the cars could spot the kid under a torrential downpour made up maybe too much water this is really interesting see the Tesla can see the kid but as soon as it It's raining. The kid is gone.
And it was similar in the LIDAR car. where you first got a clear image of the kid and the shadow. Once we started the hose, oh, you see all the water going in.
Lidar might struggle here. Okay, here we go. And as the wall of water started, Lidar seemed to not slow down at all.
Oh, my God! Until the last possible second. Another W. Now I just need the rain to stop. You know any good rain dances?
I did that, though. Oh, that's actually a good idea. Now that Lidar had surprised me, It was time to see if Tesla could...
could as well. Oh boy. Oh boy.
Sadly, it did not.