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Can You Fool A Self Driving Car?
Mark Rober · 2 HN recommenders · 2 recommendation months
Recommended by 2 Hacker News commenters across 2 months (2025–2026).
SignalTube analysis
Among 22 other demo videos tagged Self-driving & autonomous vehicles, the mean is 0.3 distinct HN recommenders. This video has 2 distinct HN recommenders, about 7.3× that mean. Recommendations span 2 distinct months; the peer average is 0.3 months. This is a data-derived comparison, not a human review or quality rating.
15% of its 13 labeled comments are marked as recommendations or strong recommendations. HN mention years are 2025–2026; those years describe discussion history, not upload date. Its verified runtime is 18 minutes 54 seconds. YouTube lists its publication date as 2025-03-15.
- Channel / speaker
- Mark Rober
- Verified runtime
- 18m 54s
- YouTube upload date
- 2025-03-15
- Hacker News mention years
- 2025–2026
SAME TOPIC AND FORMAT
Compare with related videos
The comparison cohort uses other demo videos in Self-driving & autonomous vehicles. “Shared recommenders” counts HN users who recommended both videos in the source graph.
| Video | HN recommenders | Recommendation months | Positive label share | Shared recommenders | Runtime | Upload date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Can You Fool A Self Driving Car?Current video | 2 | 2 | 15% | — | 18m 54s | 2025-03-15 |
| Tesla Self Driving vs Everyday Roads!demo · Marques Brownlee | 1 | 1 | 25% | No recorded overlap | 23m 18s | 2022-12-14 |
| Yandex Self-Driving Car. Moscow streets after a heavy snowfalldemo · Яндекс Go | 1 | 1 | 25% | No recorded overlap | 4m 0s | 2018-02-16 |
| drive.ai Rainy Night Autonomous Drivedemo · drive.ai | 1 | 1 | 13% | No recorded overlap | 3m 46s | 2017-02-14 |
THREE SOURCE-BASED CONTEXT POINTS
Why Hacker News recommends it
Each note combines the dataset’s stance label and short rationale; comment bodies are not reproduced. Open the HN source for the original discussion.
The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “BYD's cheapest electric cars to have Lidar self-driving tech”. Its short rationale: the source snapshot has no short rationale for this mention.
The archive classifies this as a recommendation in “Tesla changes meaning of 'Full Self-Driving', gives up on promise of autonomy”. Its short rationale: Demonstrates why lidar should be used.
The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “AI is different”. Its short rationale: Tesla failing against a Wile E. Coyote mural.