Introduced for the 1968 model year as a more affordable proposition to the GTX, the Plymouth Road Runner became a big hit. The nameplate moved 44,303 units in its first year on the market and a ...

This wall remains a silly and contrived test. Rober did it for the fun of recreating the Road Runner cartoon scene, not because it’s an important thing for self-driving cars to detect.

Unfortunately, since Tesla's engineers haven't yet invented a way to zoom through the fake tunnel like the Road Runner, the car does, in fact, slam right into the wall like Wile E. Coyote would.

Road Runner zooms around the corner and passes ... including seeing whether the vehicle would stop for a mannequin standing in the road under both clear conditions and in rain and fog.

Introduced in the fall of 1967 as a 1968 model year, the Road Runner enlarged the B-body Plymouth family – all derived from the Belvedere – with a cheap means to a tire-smoking end.