Tesla hacker reveals what driver-facing camera is looking for

Re:Tesla hacker reveals what driver-facing camera is looking... by dheera on Monday October 05, 2020 @04:21PM (#24691592)

The one thing I hate about most cars' active lane keep systems is that if you fall asleep and don't grip the steering wheel for a while, it does the most UNSAFE thing possible, which is to beep a few times and then disable itself, which would mean that you crash, 100% of the time. Yet other lane keep systems disable themselves below 40mph which means you crash as soon as the car slows down to that speed.

What it should do is continue to aggressively lane keep, switch on emergency flashers, and sound progressively louder alarms until you wake up, but NEVER stop lane keeping, even as the car slows down below 40mph. It should lane keep all the way down to 0 and keep sounding the alarms.

What does Tesla do if you actually fall asleep and ignore the warnings?

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Re:Tesla hacker reveals what driver-facing camera is looking... by awad on Monday October 05, 2020 @04:46PM (#24691843)

The hazard lights go on, the car will slow down, and eventually pull over to the side of the road while Autopilot is disabled for the rest of the trip. Though the "disabled for rest of the trip" bit can be trivially worked around by shutting down and powering back on, this seems to be better than what you mentioned in immediately shutting down the system while still driving.

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Re:Tesla hacker reveals what driver-facing camera is looking... by dheera on Monday October 05, 2020 @04:47PM (#24691856)

That's awesome, at least the hazard lights and pulling over to the side of the road, sounds infinitely more safe than any other lane keep system I've seen.

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