Dangerous Idiot Sleeps While Driving His Tesla on Autopilot [View all]
https://jalopnik.com/dangerous-idiot-sleeps-while-driving-his-tesla-on-autop-1832130316
Is this for real?...So I put it up in Weird News..You decide on this one...I never heard of the website............................ jalopnik.com..... but that doesn't mean a thing.. You decide if this is real or a fake.
Here is the story, and there are pictures at the link above...you be the judge....
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Hey, who likes riddles? Heres one! Whats the difference between KITT from Knight Riders self-driving system and a Tesla on Autopilot? The answer? Nothing! Theyre both fucking fictional when it comes to being fully self-driving and if you sleep in your Autopilot-mode Tesla youre an idiot endangering everyone around you. Also, only one could be used while David Hasselhoff enjoyed a cheeseburger. With this in mind, this video of a guy sleeping at the wheel of his Tesla Model X should be even more infuriating.
This was shot by a reader whod prefer to remain anonymous, on the road back from Las Vegas. Thanks to the slo-mo video, you can see that this guy in his Model X is quite clearly and lavishly asleep.
I am not sure how hes defeated the many warnings that come on if the system doesnt detect a hand on the steering wheel; perhaps his hand is resting there, or maybe he has one of these terrible things, or maybe just an orange.
No matter how hes tricking the system into thinking theres an awake and alert human behind the wheel, it doesnt really matter. This is deeply and richly stupid.
Of course, Tesla absolutely does not want anyone doing this with Autopilot, under any circumstances. They have very specific safeguards to prevent this kind of dumbassery, and while, sure, a car without autopilot would have likely crashed much sooner, this is still a terrible idea.