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.
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.