Another day, another article about people sleeping while driving in a Tesla...
Are people doing this consciously, are they deciding to do this or are they just driving whilst exhausted? If they were driving a different car would they be falling asleep behind the wheel due to tiredness. If this is the case then being on autopilot is maybe a better option?
Do people really believe they can just sleep whilst on autopilot? It seemed pretty clear to me quite quickly what the limitations of autopilot were. I would never fall asleep whilst driving (well no more so than driving any other car). How do they fall asleep while keeping their hand on the wheel?
It's frustrating because autopilot even in it's current state is incredible I think and I would be really pissed off if it was banned or taken away because of the actions of some idiots.
This all being said given the way people drive so distracted these days, reading books (I saw someone read a large bible driving 80mpg in their Honda civic on the freeway), eating and drinking steering with their knees, on their phone, falling asleep etc. doing these things without autopilot must be far more dangerous than with. Autopilot at least puts a level of safety between distracted drivers and imminent doom. Of course there is the reasonable argument that autopilot encourages even more distracted driving.
Are people doing this consciously, are they deciding to do this or are they just driving whilst exhausted? If they were driving a different car would they be falling asleep behind the wheel due to tiredness. If this is the case then being on autopilot is maybe a better option?
Do people really believe they can just sleep whilst on autopilot? It seemed pretty clear to me quite quickly what the limitations of autopilot were. I would never fall asleep whilst driving (well no more so than driving any other car). How do they fall asleep while keeping their hand on the wheel?
It's frustrating because autopilot even in it's current state is incredible I think and I would be really pissed off if it was banned or taken away because of the actions of some idiots.
This all being said given the way people drive so distracted these days, reading books (I saw someone read a large bible driving 80mpg in their Honda civic on the freeway), eating and drinking steering with their knees, on their phone, falling asleep etc. doing these things without autopilot must be far more dangerous than with. Autopilot at least puts a level of safety between distracted drivers and imminent doom. Of course there is the reasonable argument that autopilot encourages even more distracted driving.
