CR Engineers Show a Tesla Will Drive With No One in the Driver's Seat

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They can test whether other cars allow sitting on a buckled seatbelt instead of wearing one or not, Still, the result will be the same for those: Without a competent human driver to steer, accelerate, and brake, an undesirable result would happen. With a competent driver, regardless of the seatbelt status, the test trip would be fine with no crashes.



No doubt. The relatives reported the intent: The 2 men went for a test drive/to test out the Autopilot.




With Tesla, there are people who want to test the system out to see what the system can do. Some would brake too late because they thought they could wait a fraction of second longer to see whether the system would do that for them timely. Many reports of summon damages at low speed because people intentionally wanted to test the system out to the max.

I think part of the reasons that people keep intentionally testing the system because they keep hearing from Tesla that the system is getting so much better, drastically better...


The bar that NTSB is asking for is quite low: Driver camera monitoring system. And now, the bar from Consumer Report is also quite much lower: incorporate seat sensor to Autopilot eligibility status. Tesla can write some lines of codes and that would satisfy Consumer Report's demand.



NTSB and Consumer Report are not there to trash Tesla.

They are there to advise Tesla on how to save lives and they both also educate drivers on how not to lose their lives.

I was driving on the freeway today and was in stop and go traffic and saw a driver in a car next to me (pretty sure it was an Audi) watching a movie or video or something on an iPad (yes, iPad, not iPhone) mounted to his dash. Would the in cabin driver monitoring systems Of any car company be able to know that the driver’s eyes, which are fixed forward, are actually watching a movie on their dash mounted iPad or iPhone instead of the road? And if they can’t, then how useful are driver monitoring systems that track driver’s eyes? Should car companies have to design interiors to make sure the dash is on camera too to make sure people aren’t mounting their phones behind the wheel to watch videos while they drive? Or do we just acknowledge that if we try to build something foolproof some people will just become better fools?

 

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As a follow up to this, Car and Driver went and tested pretty much all the systems out there. And no surprise, all of them were able to be fooled, including even Supercruise with its cameras (by using gag glasses). CR however made it seem like Tesla was the one company affected by this and apparently didn't test any other system as a sanity check.

It's Not Just Tesla: All Other Driver-Assist Systems Work without Drivers, Too