Cameras are a key piece of the technology used in self-driving cars and human-driven cars with features like auto braking – but just how hard is it to fool a camera-clad car? Ironically enough, self-driving car cameras can be fooled by photographs themselves, as YouTube and engineer Mark Rober demonstrated in a crash test inspired by the cartoon antics of Wile E Coyottee.
In the crash test, Rober creates a series of tests designed to determine what a self-driving car can and cannot see, putting a Li-DAR based car against one that uses cameras to power the self-driving features. The series of tests that included everything from fog to bright headlights culminated in a test inspired by Wile E Coyote himself: Will a self-driving car crash into a wall if a picture of the road is printed on it?
