YouTuber Mark Rober Tests Cameras Vs. Lidar And Gets It Wrong

Mark Rober is perhaps the most successful science and engineering YouTube creator.

He has 65 million subscribers — more than Taylor Swift — and many of his videos have over 120 million views, surpassing the most recent Super Bowl.

Rober’s most recent release compares a Tesla dealing with various road issues with a test car with a Luminar LIDAR. He tests how both cars react to a dummy child in the road obscured by fog, water jets, bright lights and even a giant printed poster showing an empty road, as sometimes seen in the Road Runner cartoons.