India, March 19 -- Former NASA engineer and YouTuber Mark Rober published a video of an experiment using a Tesla car that has prompted him to face severe backlash. In the video, he tested Tesla's Autopilot against a LiDAR-equipped car to assess the vehicle's obstacle-detection capabilities. Though the Tesla Model Y passed some of the parameters with flying colours, as per the video, it failed to recognise a wall painted as the road. Initially, the video went viral, with people expressing their shock and surprise; however, soon after, Tesla fans claimed it was a hoax orchestrated to hurt Elon Musk's automaker.

In a video dubbed in Hindi, Rober says he will test whether the car hits the wall painted in Wile E. Coyote style. For the uniniti...