Nothing wrong with what you’ve said, but as I said above you don’t acutely need any juggling or movement at all. As long as there is a net torque on the wheel in one direction or the other you won’t get nagged even if it’s completely static.
Um. Maybe it's because I've been on FSD-b for a year and some. There have definitely been times when, doing the breathe-left, breathe-right game, that if I stayed on one side, it would alert and complain.
There was a point in time where idiots of various descriptions would buy defeat devices, which consisted of a jiggly weight attached to the wheel. As a result, one, maybe two things happened:
- The NHTSA got seriously mad and went after the folks selling this stuff. Mainly on Amazon. One sec: Yeah, a quick look reveals that they're not obviously for sale on Amazon any more.
- It is Strongly Suspected that Tesla changed algorithms in an attempt to detect defeat devices. No question, though: even with the "breathe" approach, and sometimes the one-handed approach, on long trips the alarm would trip. Sometimes the whole business would get so squirrely that, in an attempt to get enough torque to prevent a Strike (too many strikes, and no FSD for you), one would end up disengaging, a bad thing in traffic.
Over time the algorithms have gotten a bit better, to the point where I haven't seen any alerts so long as the "breathe" or "one-hand" tricks were going, so you may be right.
One more fun tidbit: On FSD-b, Tesla does tell one up front that they're going to use the in-car camera to make sure you're looking out the windows. It's not crazy aggressive; one can look around, glance at the screen, and so forth. But if one stares at the screen for more than, say, 10 seconds or so, the alert will appear telling one to pay attention.
Interestingly, it's been noted by denizens of the 11.x thread that wearing sunglasses interferes with the eyeball tracker. I think that's true. Apparently, some other manufacturers of FSD-like capability (GM, I think) use an IR camera for eyeball tracking since, reportedly, the IR camera can track eyeballs through sunglasses.
Ha. One of the resident trolls came to the 11.x thread and crowed that he/she didn't have to touch the wheel and could read a book, since said troll was using a defeat device and wearing sunglasses. Which got people mad at the troll, which was probably the troll's purpose in stating all that.
Thing is, though: FSD-b in particular and, to a lesser extent, EAP, makes mistakes on a regular basis. Less regular these days than, say, last year this time, but those mistakes, while easy to recover from if one is paying attention, would be deadly if one
wasn't paying attention. So anybody actually doing what the troll claimed he/her was doing would definitely be in death-wish country. So: Don't defeat the safety measures.
By the way: Those Ford commercials where people play patty-cake while the car is driving itself around? You tell me: Which is safer: Having your hands on the wheel when something unexpected occurs, or playing patty cake and having to
first move one's hands to the wheels,
then take emergency action?