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This Week in Startups · 2025-03-17 · 73 min · 14,671 words

Self-Driving Car Myths, Klarna's Big IPO & Netflix's $300M Gamble | E2098

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We have a video you want me to react to. Hit me. Can you fool a self driving car? This video's only been online. For about a day and it has eight million views already. This thing is blowing the hell up. So what he did is he did a number of tests and he used two different self-driving cars. And he he wanted to see how much he could do to obscure the car's vision and if he could mess up. Yes. So here's one of the tests where he's got a mannequin of a child in the road and then he's covering the road with fog to obscure the car's view. So here's how both cars did. For I can no longer see that there's a kid through this fog. Yep. Guaranteed.

Lidar stop. Guaranteed FSD doesn't. Also a human. is not gonna get this right. But nobody can see through fog except for it's gonna hit it. Yeah.

As would a human. Any of us driving that car would have hit the kid. Great. The endorsement here, just before we move on, is I think now every car should have LIDAR because that As a parent. I love to see what Lidar did. This week in Startups is brought to you by That's sweet.

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