Re:Former Tesla Firmware Engineer Discusses the System
by jakobegger on Sunday August 26, 2018 @01:46AM
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I've missed the light turning green while just looking out the window (our car has no screen). As long as people are only distracted while waiting at a light I wouldn't worry too much.
Re:Former Tesla Firmware Engineer Discusses the System
by coatmatter on Sunday August 26, 2018 @04:58AM
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Except they're not only distracted while looking at their screen when stopped. The distraction continues after they start rolling again - one thing directly leads to another here.
Anyway this little illustrated anecdote of mine aside, driver distraction is a genuine issue - even for drivers at red lights. The number of times I've seen this type of behaviour transcend into moving off while remaining distracted (whether that's heads down visually or just mentally) is too boringly frequent to detail. Sometimes the distracted drivers even creep forward unconsciously while traffic is flowing across them. Emergency vehicles can't get through, drivers end up splitting their attention, pressure mounts once proper movement starts again, and all the while they don't realise they don't have full attention in a changing environment.
It's almost like a hypoxia.
Tom Scott did a pretty good video on this: https://youtu.be/_-aDHxoblr4