> The system does ping and then yell at you if you don't have your hand on the wheel. There's no way to prevent someone from keeping a hand on the wheel and watching a movie while driving.

Daimler actually shipped something intended to do this and beep/yell at you if it thought you were "distracted" or tired, but I honestly never knew what it was measuring. If you could point a camera at the driver it would be trivial, but people would definitely have an issue with that!

> It's really tragic what happened but as a driver you should be aware of what's happening. I've put ~15k miles of Autopilot on our Tesla and while it helps with the mental fatigue I was still watching the road 100% of the time exactly for reasons like this.

Yes, even just adaptive cruise control is a big help and wonderful in traffic. But the ACC I'm familiar with will turn off as soon as you let go of the wheel. I'm happy to hear that the features have worked well for you, and it's nice that the Tesla yells at you, but it just needs to turn off.