Popular YouTuber tests Tesla's Autopilot against a car equipped with the tech Elon Musk loves to hate
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A YouTuber's homemade Tesla test looks like something straight out of a children's cartoon.
CrunchLabs founder and former NASA engineer Mark Rober put Tesla's Autopilot through its paces to see if it could detect the same road obstacles as a vehicle that uses LiDAR — a system that Elon Musk has previously called a "fool's errand."
The verdict? Kind of.
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