Can You Fool a Self-Driving Car?
Creator moment · 2025 · Niche
A Tesla wall-crash Short reached 155 million views amid competing tests and debate.
Max Weinbach
@mweinbach · Mar 16, 2025
lol looks like Mark Rober edited in a Pixel image over the iPhone he was recording with. You can see the iPhone in the reflection.
Mark Rober
@MarkRober · Mar 17, 2025
Here is the raw footage of my Tesla going through the wall. Not sure why it disengages 17 frames before hitting the wall but my feet weren’t touching the brake or gas.
abdou
@thatabdou · Mar 17, 2025
after running the road runner scenario through a monocular depth estimation model (that probably has much less accuracy than the real FSD system would have).
Kyle Paul
@kylepaultests · Mar 20, 2025
Taking a cue from @MarkRober's Tesla wall crash, I couldn’t resist diving into the action myself. I set up an experiment to recreate the crash and test if I’d get the same outcome. Check out the video to see how it all unfolds! I’m excited to hear your thoughts in the
Spread Score
How it worksNumbers
- Rober raw-footage X post only; live rounded counter
- 12.5M
- As of Oct 14, 2026 · X · Self-reported · Mark Rober / X
- Seed to peak
- 4 days
- Mar 15 ’25 to Mar 19 ’25
- Platforms
- 6
- Started on YouTube
- Leverage
- 0.2×
- 11M on 65M followers at seed
Ingredients
Copies showed the crash his thumbnail held back, and put his name in the title.
| The crash already shown | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| “Mark Rober” in the title |
YouTube views, 19 Oct 2026
How it spread
Trace the originRober’s wall-crash video spread from YouTube to Reddit, Bluesky and X. Luminar promoted its supplied car, and its shares rose 27%. Criticism prompted raw footage and a repeat test with mixed results.
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