In a world where tech innovation meets cartoon physics, Silicon Valley has officially gone full Looney Tunes. Imagine YouTubers and tech enthusiasts spending their weekends constructing fake walls just to test whether Tesla’s self-driving technology can outsmart a Wile E. Coyote-style roadblock. Talk about peak Bay Area energy.

When Memes Meet Machine Learning

Recently, content creator Kyle Paul decided to take Mark Rober’s viral experiment to the next level by testing Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (FSD) technology with strategically placed fake walls. Using two different Tesla models - a Model Y with an older hardware system and the futuristic Cybertruck - Paul put automotive AI to the ultimate cartoon-inspired test.

The Results Are In

Spoiler alert: Not all Teslas are created equal. The Model Y, sporting an older FSD version, failed spectacularly and required manual intervention to avoid crashing. Meanwhile, the Cybertruck - Tesla’s cyberpunk poster child - demonstrated surprising awareness by detecting and stopping before the fake wall.

It’s like watching a real-life version of those old Roadrunner cartoons, except instead of an ACME-branded trap, we’ve got tech bros with video cameras and expensive electric vehicles. Only in the Bay Area could such an absurd experiment not just exist, but go viral.

Bottom line? Self-driving technology is improving, but maybe don’t try this at home - or anywhere else, for that matter.