It was claimed that the fire truck was hidden by the pickup truck in front and it was too late to react by the time the pickup truck in front avoided the fire truck so the driver of Tesla could now see an exposed fire truck.
In this case, it's not that the driver was not looking at the road:
"The driver of the Tesla is my dad's friend. He said that he was behind a pickup truck with AP engaged. The pickup truck suddenly swerved into the right lane because of the firetruck parked ahead. Because the pickup truck was too high to see over,
he didn't have enough time to react.
He hit the firetruck at 65mph and the steering column was pushed 2 feet inwards toward him. Luckily, he wasn't hurt. He fully acknowledges that he should've been paying more attention and isn't blaming Tesla. The whole thing was pretty unfortunate considering he bought the car fairly recently (blacked it out too)."
No current driver restriction schemes is perfect. Reporters who test-drove the Cadillac CT6 Super Cruise were able to learn the behavior of its eye scanning technique and was able to do social media/e-mails while being monitored with eye scanning device.
" We worked out ways to bounce our attention back and forth between our phone and the car in roughly four-second segments, deceiving the system into thinking we were paying attention, to the point where we were all able to
answer emails and to Slack with co-workers. One journalist I was riding with was able to communicate with his editor, log in to Facebook, and then start a Facebook Live session of him driving hands-free. While I held the camera for the majority of the time, the fact he was able to coordinate that many moving parts while ostensibly driving a car is either impressive or incredibly stupid."