Re:‘It Happened So Fast’: Inside a Fatal Tesla Autopilot Acc...
by kbos87 on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @09:15AM
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Tesla only requires periodic, light torque on the wheel while other manufacturers (Subaru, GM I believe?) have moved to eye tracking. Pretty obvious why Tesla doesn’t want to go down that path, they don’t want to invest in a strong implication you have to watch the road.
Re:‘It Happened So Fast’: Inside a Fatal Tesla Autopilot Acc...
by rvz on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @11:58PM
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> Tesla only requires periodic, light torque on the wheel while other manufacturers (Subaru, GM I believe?) have moved to eye tracking.
That clearly didn't work when the driver of that car was distracted and went down to search for his phone when he dropped it. He took his hands off the wheel and the car still didn't take action to detect that he was distracted.
> Pretty obvious why Tesla doesn’t want to go down that path, they don’t want to invest in a strong implication you have to watch the road.
It is also 'pretty obvious' that using the wheel to assess driver attentiveness is not enough, otherwise the car would have slowed down and detected that the driver got distracted.
Tracking the drivers eyes has also worked well for Comma.ai.
What a fucking idiot. Handsfree exists for that same use case without holding the phone.
Also where was the "Driver Monitoring System" that was supposed to monitor the driver's attention and their eyes on the road whist operating the vehicle with autopilot on?
I think lots of drivers have become too complacent and relying too heavily on the autopilot system and are still not paying attention when using it.
Maybe if Tesla had put in place a system that properly monitors the eyes of the driver perhaps, the car would slow down by itself and pull over, instead of running past a red traffic light and killing a person.