Driver takes video of another driver sleeping behind the wheel of a self-driving Tesla

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@Shuck

These semi-autonomous systems are dangerous because they require humans to fully respond to events on the road, while both lulling them into a false sense of complacency and actually making it more difficult for them to stay aware and ready to respond when needed even if that’s what they’re trying to do.

Have you used one of these systems yourself? Or is your conclusion based on the power of pure reason?

@wst

Yeah, that’s the problem with “self-driving” cars these days. The use case: “car drives itself but human must be 110% aware of everything (despite not having anything to do) and be ready to take over in 0.5 seconds” is f—ing stupid and should be illegal for car makers to produce.

Same question to you.

@MotoGuzzi

Maybe they were already dead.

This reminds me to mention, it’s not like people don’t fall asleep behind the wheel of cars without self-driving systems. The difference is, those people tend to die.