THE VIDEO SHELF · lidar versus camera self-driving
Can You Fool A Self Driving Car?
Mark Rober tests whether self-driving cars can be fooled, comparing a lidar-equipped car with a camera-only Tesla in scenarios including a painted Wile E. Coyote wall and smoke.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN uses it as the reference demonstration in lidar versus camera debates, though some critics fault its methodology and style.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Mark Rober
- Topic
- lidar versus camera self-driving
- Format
- demo
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 13
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2025–2026
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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My opinion is that skipping lidar is nonsense. Check Mark Rober's video, published one month ago, "Can You Fool A Self Driving Car?" where he compares a Tesla with other Lidar-equipped cars: [VIDEO]
vault on Hacker News · 2025-04
In Raspberry Pi Lidar ScannerHere's a good demonstration why LIDAR SHOULD be implemented instead of what Tesla tries to sell: [VIDEO]
rudolftheone on Hacker News · 2025-09
In Tesla changes meaning of 'Full Self-Driving', gives up on promise of autonomy
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