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I thought it also used pressure sensors on the driver seat besides the 30 sec nudge on the steering wheel?

gher-shyu3i 5y ago
Exactly. Plus, luxury car manufacturers today have a camera in the dashboard to sense the driver's drowsiness level, and tells him to pull over if it senses that he's tired or dosing off.
- mixmastamyk 5y ago
  I appreciate the help, but definitely wouldn't buy a car that puts me on camera, no exceptions. Companies have proven themselves irresponsible with such technology.
  - chaorace 5y ago
    I think they may be referring to a camera facing the road, not the driver. That's how Toyota's drowsiness sensing functionality works. It tracks the lane lines using a dashboard camera and detects swaying/lane drifting. The system will nudge you back into your lane and beep at you. If it has to do this repeatedly, the dashboard will light up and ask you to take a break.
    - brianwawok 5y ago
      3/y both have a driver facing camera above the rearview mirror. As of yet, it is not officially enabled for anything.
      - pests 5y ago
        That's incorrect there's an opt-in for them to send the in-cabin footage during "emergency situations" or some other ill defined term. edit: "Model 3 and Model Y are equipped with a Cabin Camera that is located above the rear-view mirror and turned off by default. If you enable the Cabin Camera, a short video clip will be captured and shared with Tesla following a safety event such as a collision or an advanced emergency braking (AEB) event. This short video clip is intended to capture the few seconds before a safety event and does not include any footage from the safety event itself." https://www.tesla.com/support/car-safety-security-features#cabin-camera https://www.tesla.com/support/car-safety-security-features#c...
        brianwawok 5y ago
        Correct and that doesn’t do anything. Other cars with the camera enable such things as hands free driving. Tesla camera doesn’t do anything for you. Maybe send a pic of you screaming if you crash, but it’s not useful to you at that point.
  - MertsA 5y ago
    Take matters into your own hands then. OpenPilot supports this and their firmware is open source, you can flash it yourself if you want. You can also disable uploading driving data to the internet and the driver monitoring camera defaults to not providing them any data. https://comma.ai/ https://comma.ai/
    - mixmastamyk 5y ago
      Sounds cool, but I don't drive enough to get sleepy doing it.
ericmay 5y ago
It does. I think if you turn on the cruise control (maintain speed but not lane) the car will not break or keep the lane. Maybe the driver thought they activated Autopilot but in reality activated cruise control at a high rate of speed and jumped in back? There wouldn't be an Autopilot nudge for cruise control either (IIRC).

Exactly. Plus, luxury car manufacturers today have a camera in the dashboard to sense the driver's drowsiness level, and tells him to pull over if it senses that he's tired or dosing off.

mixmastamyk 5y ago
I appreciate the help, but definitely wouldn't buy a car that puts me on camera, no exceptions. Companies have proven themselves irresponsible with such technology.
- chaorace 5y ago
  I think they may be referring to a camera facing the road, not the driver. That's how Toyota's drowsiness sensing functionality works. It tracks the lane lines using a dashboard camera and detects swaying/lane drifting. The system will nudge you back into your lane and beep at you. If it has to do this repeatedly, the dashboard will light up and ask you to take a break.
  - brianwawok 5y ago
    3/y both have a driver facing camera above the rearview mirror. As of yet, it is not officially enabled for anything.
    - pests 5y ago
      That's incorrect there's an opt-in for them to send the in-cabin footage during "emergency situations" or some other ill defined term. edit: "Model 3 and Model Y are equipped with a Cabin Camera that is located above the rear-view mirror and turned off by default. If you enable the Cabin Camera, a short video clip will be captured and shared with Tesla following a safety event such as a collision or an advanced emergency braking (AEB) event. This short video clip is intended to capture the few seconds before a safety event and does not include any footage from the safety event itself." https://www.tesla.com/support/car-safety-security-features#cabin-camera https://www.tesla.com/support/car-safety-security-features#c...
      - brianwawok 5y ago
        Correct and that doesn’t do anything. Other cars with the camera enable such things as hands free driving. Tesla camera doesn’t do anything for you. Maybe send a pic of you screaming if you crash, but it’s not useful to you at that point.
- MertsA 5y ago
  Take matters into your own hands then. OpenPilot supports this and their firmware is open source, you can flash it yourself if you want. You can also disable uploading driving data to the internet and the driver monitoring camera defaults to not providing them any data. https://comma.ai/ https://comma.ai/
  - mixmastamyk 5y ago
    Sounds cool, but I don't drive enough to get sleepy doing it.

ericmay 5y ago

It does. I think if you turn on the cruise control (maintain speed but not lane) the car will not break or keep the lane. Maybe the driver thought they activated Autopilot but in reality activated cruise control at a high rate of speed and jumped in back? There wouldn't be an Autopilot nudge for cruise control either (IIRC).