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Asleep at the Wheel

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Couldn't get a good enough glimpse of the license, plate, but they could get a clear shot of the driver's closed eyes? Gee, no staging here!

Not to say people aren't doing this in the real world - I'm sadly sure they are.
 
I passed this same guy on the right hand side the day before this was posted. QEW west bound right before the NOTL exit ramp.

Snoozing while driving and the car was tagging behind another car. Was beside him for a good 5min and no reaction from the driver the entire time.

Was on the bike and didn’t have a dash cam or a way to remember / jot down the plate.
 
mimico_polak said:
I passed this same guy on the right hand side the day before this was posted. QEW west bound right before the NOTL exit ramp.

Snoozing while driving and the car was tagging behind another car. Was beside him for a good 5min and no reaction from the driver the entire time.

Was on the bike and didn’t have a dash cam or a way to remember / jot down the plate.
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Still, how does the videographer manage to get a closeup of the sleeping passenger's closed eyes, but not of the license plate of the guided missile?
 
Relax said:
Still, how does the videographer manage to get a closeup of the sleeping passenger's closed eyes, but not of the license plate of the guided missile?
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Personally I think that the OPP have the plate and they’re just not showing it in the news for privacy reasons.

For all we know is the cops have already contacted the owner. Is it illegal to let the car drive?

Not even sure what the charge would be…sleeping while driving? Distracted? Inattentive? I’ve no clue what they could charge him with.
 
mimico_polak said:
Personally I think that the OPP have the plate and they’re just not showing it in the news for privacy reasons.

For all we know is the cops have already contacted the owner. Is it illegal to let the car drive?

Not even sure what the charge would be…sleeping while driving? Distracted? Inattentive? I’ve no clue what they could charge him with.
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careless or dangerous operation of a motor vehicle. the latter is a criminal offense.
 
DownUnder said:
Isn't there a law stating your hands have to be on the wheel too?
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Good luck proving that though.

'Hey officer, nah I wasn't sleeping. Just laid way the eff back as I find it comfortable, and I kept hold of the wheel below the windowsill...it's there you just can't see it.'
 
In my Honda Civic, if I put on lane assist and assisted cruise control, I have to put my hands on the wheel every 15 seconds or else it will start beeping and turn off.

Does autopilot have something like this?
 
caje said:
In my Honda Civic, if I put on lane assist and assisted cruise control, I have to put my hands on the wheel every 15 seconds or else it will start beeping and turn off.

Does autopilot have something like this?
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Theoretically. Because Musk likes playing silly bugger it is both set really loose (eg not much driver attention required) and exceedingly easy to defeat (hang a weight on one side of the wheel). Until a government gets the stones to kick his ass, he will continue killing people.

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Tesla enabled a camera to watch the driver in some of their cars but it's theatrics. The camera can easily be defeated. It would be very simple for Tesla to disable autopilot if the camera couldn't decide what is happening but again, Tesla focused on marketing and ahole owners instead of public and safety. If autopilot didn't allow their entitled asshat buyers to sleep or play on their phone, buyers wouldn't be paying 15K for it.

www.consumerreports.org

Tesla Driver Monitoring Fails to Keep Driver Attention on Road

Tesla’s camera-based driver monitoring fails to keep driver attention on the road, Consumer Reports' tests show. Autopilot works with the driver-monitoring camera covered.
www.consumerreports.org

When CR tested Tesla’s cabin cameras in our Model S and Model Y, we found:

  • Drivers could still use Autopilot if they were looking away from the road and while using their phone.
  • Even if the vehicle’s camera was obscured, Autopilot remained active and didn’t prohibit the driver from using the system.
  • We could use Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (FSD) beta software with the vehicle’s camera blocked.
 
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I always thought the name "auto-pilot" was slightly misleading into what the vehicle is capable of doing.
Then again, with drunk driving offences staying pretty much the same year after year what do we expect.
Source: https://madd.ca/pages/impaired-driving/overview/statistics/
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I do not take these statistics as 100% fact, but they show enough to prove that we're stupid..
 
Jampy00 said:
I always thought the name "auto-pilot" was slightly misleading into what the vehicle is capable of doing.
Then again, with drunk driving offences staying pretty much the same year after year what do we expect.
Source: https://madd.ca/pages/impaired-driving/overview/statistics/
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I do not take these statistics as 100% fact, but they show enough to prove that we're stupid..
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It's not "slightly" misleading. It is full blown fantasy or if you prefer fraud. The fine print is driver assist and explicitely in no way self-driving and they say it won't be for many years to come. Selling a "Full self-driving" upgrade deserves the biggest public safety conviction that government can obtain. At some point marketing being way in front of engineering will have a reckoning.
 
GreyGhost said:
It's not "slightly" misleading. It is full blown fantasy or if you prefer fraud. The fine print is driver assist and explicitely in no way self-driving and they say it won't be for many years to come. Selling a "Full self-driving" upgrade deserves the biggest public safety conviction that government can obtain. At some point marketing being way in front of engineering will have a reckoning.
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I was being slightly sarcastic and 100% agree.
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