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 ...

YouTuber Mark Rober drove a Tesla Model Y on Autopilot at a fake road wall and extreme rain and fog to test it against a Lexus with LiDAR.

“It turns out my Tesla is less Road Runner, more Wile E. Coyote,” Rober says as he inspects the damage on the front hood. The ...

The video also included Luminar employees and merchandise. Mark Rober praised LiDAR tech firm Luminar so often throughout the video that viewers questioned whether the footage was an elaborate ad.

TL;DR: Mark Rober tested Tesla's Autopilot against LiDAR, highlighting its strengths and weaknesses. Autopilot struggled in fog and rain, failing to detect obstacles, while LiDAR succeeded.

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Former NASA engineer and popular YouTuber Mark Rober pitted a Tesla's object detection system against Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) system to determine which was better at recognizing ...

Mark Rober's Tesla Autopilot ‘crash test’ has created a controversy on social media. (YouTube/@MarkRober) Rober then explains how Tesla relies on optical cameras instead of LiDAR. The clip ...

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 ...

Tesla Critic Dan O'Dowd recreated Mark Rober's fake wall test, with results showing that HW3 EVs fail to detect the wall, ...