Can You Fool A Self Driving Car_Đánh lừa xe tự lái có thực sự khả thi?

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I'm in my Tesla on autopilot going 40 miles an hour towards a fake
Wiley car owning roadrunner painted wall. Please stop. Please stop. Holy...
And I'm doing this to see if Tesla's autopilot can be tricked
because it famously only relies on simple cameras to navigate the world
as opposed to much more expensive tech.
In fact, we're out here today to run a bunch of tests in extreme conditions
to see how those simple cameras on a Tesla
stack up against other fancy cars that use more advanced technology.
Wow!
And the story of how I ended up as a crash test dummy in my own car
started six months back at Disneyland
as I was sneaking onto the famously pitch black ride called Space Mountain.
And while I might look a little plus size in that jacket,
as you can see from this infrared camera shot,
that's no ordinary jacket because it's hiding some of that fancy car technology.
43 million people ride Space Mountain every year,
but unlike a famous ride like Colossus,
Space Mountain is in near total darkness,
meaning no one knows what the ride actually looks like,
which as far as I'm concerned, needed to be fixed with a special undercover operation.
True story, I have been wanting to make this video for over 20 years,
way before I had a YouTube channel because I would come to Disneyland
and just be like, someday the technology will be there
so we could map out what Space Mountain actually looks like.
So this is a very big moment for me.
That's common knowledge.
Every good undercover operation worth its salt needs a three-step plan.
For me, step one would just be getting into Disneyland with my tech
through their famously tight security.
If I managed to do that, step two would be making it through the park,
avoiding any security guards on my way to Space Mountain.
And finally, for step three, I would need to sneak onto the ride itself
while avoiding any suspicion to make my childhood dream come true.
And if all this seems like overkill, let's just say I have a bit of history
getting kicked out of amusement parks in the name of science.
For step one, I took an oversized jacket and made a little pocket inside
where I could hide my secret tech inside it.
It's like the slight limp shuffle lock that really sells it, I think.
Because they make you walk through metal detectors,
I disguised and temporarily placed my device with a bunch of gear in my camera bag
and just had to hope it wouldn't get discovered.
And even though this moment of truth was terrifying,
I knew I just needed to play it cool.
Like that.
And the security was, in fact, extremely tight.
But our alibi was tighter.
All right, we're in.
One down, two to go.
Once inside, I immediately made my way to a bathroom to properly suit up.
Now I just had to make it all the way over to Space Mountain
without arousing the suspicion of any of the park's security guards.
Which is a lot harder than you might think because it's a well-kept secret.
Disney employs a bunch of security officers dressed up in plain clothes
as normal park goers so I could trust no one.
So in an attempt to blend in and look like a normal park goer,
I took a corn dog break.
Doing this for the integrity of the mission.
Back on track after a close call or two, I had made it inside the building.
All right, two down.
Now for the hard part.
Now that we're inside, it's probably a good time to explain why my jacket looks like this
when you view it with an infrared camera.
Because that is a really tiny portable LiDAR scanner.
So it's shooting out 640,000 laser pulses per second to fully map the surroundings.
Now as for the legality of this, if you check the back of your ticket,
it says you have to obey all the park rules.
And if you check their website for the rules on forbidden items,
it says you can't bring in shoes with wheels or stun guns or cremated remains.
Ew.
But you'll notice the forbidden items list makes no mention of chest mounted LiDAR scanners.
So technically, I'm not breaking any laws
by precisely mapping out this entire ride down to the nearest half inch.
Don't blow this rover.
We got this.
And so after sneaking past the last of the ride's security, I was finally in place.
And this is probably a good time to point out that the final boss here in this control room,
watching all the infrared see in the dark cameras,
was the one I was most afraid would shut down the whole operation.
Because when we tested this out to see how inconspicuous the LiDAR would be,
as you can see here, not very.
As it lights up the whole place like a Christmas tree.
By the way, you should know LiDAR stands for Light Detection and Ranging,
whereas radar is Radio Detection and Ranging.
Basically, it's like having a bunch of laser pointers inside this shell
shooting all around the room.
And each time you fire one of them,
you then see how long it takes for you to see it hit the object it's pointed at.
And since we know the speed of light, if we measure that time,
it will tell us how far away the object is.
For example, it will take twice as long
to detect the laser point on an object that's 20 feet away,
as opposed to an object that's 10 feet away.
But how could the sensor possibly keep track of 640,000 laser pulses
firing all out at once?
Well, it turns out, amazingly, they actually happen one after another.
So the sensor only has to keep track of one pulse at a time.
And this works because the speed of light is so fast.
In fact, if you slow time way down,
so the time it takes a laser to hit an object is four slow-mo seconds,
then you can wait 30 minutes on that slow-mo timescale
before sending the next pulse.
So it's actually really easy for the sensor to know
exactly which laser pulse it's measuring,
even if that happens 640,000 times in a single second.
And with that, it was time for the execution phase
of Secret Undercover Operation Mousetrap.
It felt so good to cross off a 30-year-old bucket list item.
But just as I feared, as our exact cart pulled back into the station,
they stopped the ride and announced it was being locked down.
All flights have been put on hold.
They stopped the ride.
Which meant I was about to have an unscheduled appointment
with a bunch of dudes with muscles much bigger than mine.
But as it turns out, it was an unrelated power issue.
Which meant this was a mission accomplished.
That's like a dream come true.
Before I even had a YouTube channel, I wanted to do that.
And the only critical oversight of the whole operation
was forgetting they took those dumb keychain photos at the end of the ride,
leaving behind some very incriminating evidence at the scene.
I forgot to put it away.
That's so awesome.
That's Harrison, by the way.
And he started the company that makes these super small portable lidars.
After mapping out a few more rides like Haunted Mansion,
Let's go!
and continuing my painstaking efforts to blend in,
we headed home so Harrison could process all the data.
And a few days later, he did not disappoint.
This is from the lidar you were wearing on your chest.
Get out of here.
All of this is totally in the dark.
Now what's really cool is we could visualize what was recorded as the ride progresses.
And so as you can see here,
you get a sense of what the lidar was seeing in real time as the ride progressed on.
But what's even cooler though,
is we can now use that data to make an actual tabletop 3D model of Space Mountain
with the help of our army of 3D printers.
Which meant for the first time ever, this question mark's days were numbered.
Got it.
So while all the 3D printers were hard at work,
we also reviewed the data we captured from the Haunted Mansion ride,
where we made two super interesting discoveries.
The first is that the initial room they take you in is really just a fancy elevator
so they can get you underground to transport you to the real ride,
which actually isn't in this house at all.
Because when you go down this hallway,
you're walking under this hill you see here.
So by the time you load onto the ride,
you're totally outside the park.
But if that's true, there should be some evidence for this besides our scan.
And sure enough, there is.
Because if you look back at this shot of the hill,
you can actually see just the corner of some kind of large building.
And if you check that answer on Google Maps,
you can see this entire massive above ground warehouse
where the ride actually takes place that matches up perfectly with our LiDAR scan.
Which is just super clever engineering by the super talented Disney Imagineers.
And the second discovery is they use a lot of super thin,
nearly invisible curtains they project on
that create a lot of the illusions like these flying ghosts.
And while your eye might get fooled as you can see here,
there's no hiding from the LiDAR scan.
And so you can imagine there are some incredible real world applications
for this LiDAR technology.
Like every day when your phone scans your face to unlock itself,
or when archaeologists use it to find lost ancient cities from the sky,
or for example,
in cars.
And as you might have guessed,
this car automatically saved itself from crashing
because it uses a LiDAR sensor,
which as you can imagine,
would have saved Wile E. Coyote a lot of pain over the years.
The reason it works so well is because it's updating that point cloud
of 640,000 laser measurements every second to the brain of this car,
showing exactly what's in front of it.
In fact, it works so well, as you can see here,
I can maneuver all around these obstacles in real time
with all the windows blacked out,
looking just at that point cloud in a VR headset.
Okay, easy bike guy.
My Tesla on autopilot, however,
only relies on simple cameras and its image processing to navigate the world.
So to see if that tech is just too simple,
we came up with the six-part LiDAR versus camera head-to-head face-off,
culminating in a history-making first Tesla versus cartoon physics test.
Okay, so we're starting out with the car with the LiDAR.
First test is just kids standing in the road.
Not sure why he's doing that.
It's very unsafe.
So we want to be extra careful.
Okay, hit it.
The testing speed was 40 miles an hour,
which meant the LiDAR would have to detect the kid
and then slam on the brakes at least 60 feet in front of it.
And it turned out that's all it needed.
Now it was Tesla's turn.
This is a terrible feeling driving straight at a kid,
but this is for science.
All right, we are up to speed.
And with just simple cameras,
the Tesla was speeding fast.
Oh, no.
But did detect the kid.
Just not in time to fully hit the brakes.
Oh, no.
He was even a Crunchlads fan.
Now, if you're a Tesla owner,
there is a silver lining
because we were relying on the automatic emergency braking system
to stop for the car.
And because it assumes the driver's paying full attention
while fully driving the car,
it only hits the brakes when it's 100% sure there's a problem
in order to avoid false positives.
So the alternative is to use autopilot.
And that assumes the driver isn't paying much attention.
And while the downside is you get way more phantom braking
and false positives.
That was ridiculous.
The upside is you're less likely to be charged
with vehicular manslaughter.
Because you can see here on autopilot,
it actually stopped in time.
So I decided to be nice and call the score one to one.
And then I'd be even nicer
by using the more conservative autopilot on the Tesla
for all the remaining tests.
Such as this one,
where we would now simulate the kid dashing out
from behind a parked car using some clever engineering,
giving the cars less than a second
to identify the mannequin and stop themselves.
Here we go.
Getting up to speed.
Oh, a ball came out.
I wonder why that happened.
Oh, kid.
Another life saved.
Now it was the Tesla's turn on autopilot.
40 miles an hour.
There goes the ball.
And impressively, it stopped with plenty of room to spare.
Good job, Tesla.
Which meant we were all tied up heading into round three,
the fog round.
Optically, with my own eyes,
I can no longer see that there's a kid through this fog.
The LiDAR has no issue.
This'll be interesting.
Okay, here we go.
Oh, wall of fog.
So we plunged through the fog,
coming to a very sudden break.
After which we saw the mannequin was not only still standing,
but it was casting a really cool long shadow.
Because the lasers don't pass through solid objects,
just like how you can cast a long shadow with the sun
because light doesn't pass through solid objects.
I don't have high hopes here.
But would the kid look just as cool after the Tesla test?
Oh, oh, oh, fudge!
I mean, Momo does make everything look sort of cool,
but that wasn't the only shot.
I actually hit the brakes there.
That was on autopilot?
The cameras didn't even hit the brakes at all.
The only thing still on is the pants.
That was a bad one.
And now that LiDAR had taken another W,
it's time to make it rain!
The next test would see if the cars could spot the kid
under a torrential downpour made up
of maybe too much water.
This is really interesting.
See, the Tesla can see the kid,
but as soon as it starts raining, the kid is gone.
And it was similar in the LiDAR car,
where you first got a clear image of the kid and the shadow.
Once we started the hose,
oh, you see all the water going in.
LiDAR might struggle here.
Okay, here we go.
And as the wall of water started,
LiDAR seemed to not slow down at all.
Until the last possible second.
Another W!
Now I just need the rain to stop.
You know any good rain dances?
Oh, that's actually a good idea.
Now that LiDAR had surprised me,
it was time to see if Tesla could as well.
Oh boy.
And sadly, it did not.
And though I did everything I could.
Yeah, he's no longer with us.
So it was on to the penultimate round five,
where we had six of the brightest lights that money could buy
simulating either sunset or sunrise,
or a truck in the road having its bright lights on.
Would these lights keep the cars from detecting the kid?
Blinding trucker light test.
Let's go.
LiDAR could immediately see much more than my eyes could.
When the lights turned on.
Oh, that's a bright light.
Question remained if it would see the kid.
Come on, LiDAR.
And it did it.
No problem.
Just always waits to the last minute.
It gets me every time.
That's very bright.
Time to be blinded by the light.
And it's true.
These lights were so bright.
I wouldn't have seen this kid on my own.
And at this point, I really doubted that the Tesla could either.
But when it pulled to a stop.
Okay.
We stopped for the kid with the bright light.
A W for the Tesla.
And that W meant these were the scores headed into the painted brick wall
ultimate grand finale.
Scientific papers have actually been written on this exact scenario
debating theoretically what the Tesla would do.
But we were here once and for all to silence all the debates with cold hard data.
All right.
So LiDAR is perfect and Tesla is three for five.
But as far as I'm concerned at this point, this one's the only one that matters.
Oh, my gosh.
I can't believe I'm going to do this.
All right, hit it.
Now, as you can see, as a human driver, while that looks sort of convincing,
the image processing in our brains is advanced enough that we pick up on minor
visual inconsistencies and we wouldn't hit it.
As for the LiDAR, it isn't looking at what image is printed on the wall.
So this sort of just looks like a wall, which would make this the easiest test of the day.
And as I suspected, handled it with no problem.
So the question was, would the Tesla detect and stop for this Wile E. Coyote style painted
wall that was hiding yet another child staring at nothing during what might be his last minutes
on Earth?
The one way to test that hypothesis.
I was actually supposed to go, but I chickened out.
The car may not know it's a wall, but I know it's a wall.
Everything in your body says, don't drive into a wall.
Oh, boy.
All right, here we go.
And so I steeled myself and accelerated the Tesla up to the 40 miles an hour.
And as the wall crept closer and closer without moving an inch,
question was if the Tesla would detect it in time to step on the brakes.
And it turned out.
So I can definitively say for the first time in the history of the world,
Tesla's optical camera system would absolutely smash through a fake wall
without even a slight tap on the brakes.
My heart is going to beat out of my chest.
Turns out my Tesla's more Wile E. Coyote and less Roadrunner.
Sorry, little fella.
Looks like we lost two arms and a head.
Not sure that's salvageable.
I think I might Uber home.
But that's not all, folks.
Because while LiDAR proved itself the superior car technology,
could it actually deliver on the dream of 14-year-old Mark Rober
and map out Space Mountain well enough for me to make a scaled 3D printed model?
And after 30 years of waiting, I'm happy to report for the first time ever,
this is what the Space Mountain track actually looks like.
This is so cool.
Oh, there's me.
There's me, little backwards hat.
I recognize every single one of these turns.
You go up right there, then you come down.
And then it's all the right turns, right turns, right turns.
Right here is where they take your picture.
This is why a 14-year-old me would be so proud right now.
This is it.
Space Mountain has been revealed.
And thanks to Harrison's mapping technology,
this means you can now actually see what it would look like to ride Space Mountain
with all the lights on in Crunch Labs,
even if at this size, you'd be way below the ride's five foot minimum height requirement.
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