For all the people saying this is a non issue because you can put a brick on the accelerator of other cars, or that putting a weight on the steering wheel is on

For all the people saying this is a non issue because you can put a brick on the accelerator of other cars, or that putting a weight on the steering wheel is onerous, you are completely missing the point. Try to understand why this is a problem before pulling out irrelevant excuses. The fact is, Tesla has oversold their level 2 driver assistance system in countless promos over the last 4 years. It is trivially easy to put the car in autopilot with no one in the driver seat. We have seen dozens of YouTube clips of people doing exactly this, not to mention sleeping. Tesla has been begged over and over and over and over to attach the existing weight sensor in the seat to autopilot activation and to add eye tracking. They have the tech to do this. The only reasonable conclusion, even if it sounds cynical, is Tesla encourages these videos because they make good marketing stunts and make people think they are close to full self driving, which they are not. Don’t forget Elon made a joke about the porno that was filmed on autopilot. And I don’t care what Elon says on Twitter, I trust the eye witnesses and the officers at the scene who say they are 100% sure no one was driving the Tesla that crashed outside of Houston. Those men were 60 and 70 years old and they believed the hype about their car that Musk and the media have been pumping for years. Yes they were foolish to put the car in this mode, but it was foreseeable and Tesla could have built reasonable safeguards, but they chose not to.