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Re:I kept honking at a sleeping Tesla driver on the freeway,... by rvz on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @03:19PM (#28293563)
> My questions are these: At what point does the self-driving car stop driving since the person’s hands were still on the wheel? Was there anything else I could have or should have done?

"Steering wheel torque-based driver monitoring" is not good enough for monitoring the attention of the driver.

It is a '"poor surrogate" for driver attention'. Not my words, but the words from the NTSB [0].

[0] https://arstechnica.com/cars/2019/09/feds-scold-tesla-for-sl...

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Re:I kept honking at a sleeping Tesla driver on the freeway,... by commandlinefan on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @04:16PM (#28294395)
Well, I know you're not supposed to fall asleep while "driving" a Tesla right now but... isn't that the ultimate end goal? Cars that self-drive so well that you can take a nap while you're alone in them?
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Re:I kept honking at a sleeping Tesla driver on the freeway,... by jsight on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @03:23PM (#28293634)
It likely was not using any driver monitoring in the provided scenario.
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