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PDS 3.17 The Truth About Mark Rober Tesla Crash & Trump Accused of Going "Full Dictator" Over Biden Pardons

The Philip DeFranco Show

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4.81000 Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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0:00.0

The smart-over Tesla crash scandal has gotten so big you've got people calling on Elon Musk to sue the YouTube or into the ground,

0:05.9

and so we got his response to the backlash and allegations along with new unreleased footage.

0:10.4

Donald Trump is now saying Biden's pardons for the January 6th Committee are not legitimate, which is a move some have described as Trump going full dictator,

0:17.5

and why Trump's deportation of hundreds of Venezuelans to El Salvador using the Alien Enemies Act has set up a massive legal fight. We're talking about all that and much more

0:25.0

on today's brand new, Philip DeFranco, show you daily dive into the news, how it's being

0:28.8

covered, and how people are reacting to it, starting with this. Former NASA engineer and huge

0:33.5

YouTuber Mark Rober has found himself in the midst of a massive Tesla scandal.

0:37.8

With Rober currently being accused of misleading viewers in his newest video titled,

0:41.3

Can You Fool a Self-Driving Car?

0:43.3

A video that currently has over 10 million views in just two days, and in it, he's testing Tesla's camera detection system versus the LiDAR laser scanning technology in Lumuminar vehicles. Right in the video, you see him put both cars through various tests, first having them

0:54.3

approach a test dummy of a child, and both the LIDAR car and Tesla with autopilot turned on

0:58.9

stopped for the dummy.

0:59.9

He then proceeds to add obstacles like the kid entering the road at the last second, fog, water,

1:04.4

and bright lights.

1:05.4

And while the LIDAR stopped for all of them, the Tesla with autopilot on ended up hitting

1:08.4

the dummy when faced with fog and water. But then the test generating the most conversation was a sort of old cartoon,

1:13.9

Wiley Coyote-style wall that looked like a continuing of the road with Mark trying to see if

1:18.1

the fake road would trick the cars or if they would recognize it as a wall and stop.

1:21.5

And in the video, what you see is the Lidar car stopping, but the Tesla driving through it.

1:25.6

And that is where a lot of the backlash is coming in,

1:27.9

because Mark said that he was running all these tests using Tesla's autopilot feature, and you can see

1:32.1

it appears to be engaged leading up to the wall, indicated by that rainbow road. But if you look at

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