Tesla worker filmed sleeping while on autopilot

[glewis83186]

That doesn’t look like a sleeping position, slumped forward like that. Could be anything, from passing out due to a medical condition to trying to pick something up off the floor.

The other question is was the person taking the video the driver? That’s probably as dangerous if they themselves don’t have AP engaged.

You make a great point. I didn't even think about that. Its pretty F'ed up the person recording the video is more interested in getting a story instead of maybe driving up to the person and honking the horn to try and wake that person up. Therefore making the street a better place to be on but people will be people.

 

[MDR SEA]

Hard to believe that wasn't staged.

 

[JohnnyG]

Friend filmed this o/a June 4th, 2018, near Fremont, CA.

Your "friend" needs to wash their car. It's hard to tell what we're looking at through that dirty window.

 

[electracity]

Or testing to see if eye tracking, for autopilot automatic disengagement, is working properly. (Future feature in place of hand detection on wheel?)

I like your optimism.

 

[McRat]

Texters look like that. I see them all the time. The sunlight makes them hold their cell down so they can read the screen and still type.

 

[McRat]

I've done that notebook thing, but it's not what you'd think, and I put it in the passenger seat.

You use to collect data logs. You park, pick your parameters, hit start, then drive your tests. When the test is done, you pull over, save the file, and prep the next test. If on the track, you need a hard mount for the notebook, if allowed at all.

 

[richrootes]

Excellent piece of sh*t disturbing there by the videographer - instead of maybe honking your horn to see if the guy is ok, you potentially ruin his life

Nice - good going there

 

[ahkahn]

Obviously nothing came of it considering there aren't wild headlines running around the world about a Tesla worker crashing on Autopilot...

 

[Joelgjr]

our country has an opioid epidemic - the reality is that people you would NEVER imagine using drugs are getting addicted to opioids.

 

[ucmndd]

Something super fishy about all this.

 

[jlv1]

Nothing wrong with the person filming this taking their hands off the wheel...

 

[The Duke]

Something super fishy about all this.

I thought I replied earlier, but cannot find it.
Get your big screen going and look closely from 3/4 on. There is a blurry rectangle between the driver face and the wheel. Looks Photoshopped right where the arms would be. The blur is a nice rectangle that cuts part of the steering wheel and the door trim.
Also, I have not seen this poor quality video from any recent phone.

 

[MorrisonHiker]

I thought I replied earlier, but cannot find it.
Get your big screen going and look closely from 3/4 on. There is a blurry rectangle between the driver face and the wheel. Looks Photoshopped right where the arms would be. The blur is a nice rectangle that cuts part of the steering wheel and the door trim.
Also, I have not seen this poor quality video from any recent phone.

I thought that was an open laptop... unless you are referring to something else.

 

[croman]

Yea, that's a laptop screen. The guy is slouched over. It looks medical rather than just normal sleep. Otherwise he's very very deeply asleep. AP chirps without input and eventually the car would stop, so this couldn't be a situation where someone was that deeply asleep.

 

[Just AA's]

I find it interesting that the person filming was honking... like a lot.

 

[The Duke]

I see now you are correct, a laptop blocking the arms to the steering wheel. And they are certainly looking in their lap.
Dropped a hot dog in her lap?

[Moderator note (bmah): Removing an inappropriate and borderline NSFW image/video.]

 

[malcolm]

Should've painted images of eyeballs on the outside of his closed eyelids.

Obviously you do one eye at a time

Of course then everyone worries about your thousand yard stare...

"Tesla is employing the undead! Sell immediately!"

 

[malcolm]

Then again, maybe that's what the U stands for in UAW

 

[whitex]

If he's fired, what happens to people who fall asleep in a WAYMO Autonomous car?

Waymo supervising employees sit in the 3rd row of the vans in Arizona. They are not supposed to keep their hands on the wheel or be ready to take over at any time.