The problem we’re discussing isn’t “not paying attention while driving”, it’s attention fatigue bought on by requiring constant focus but not actually requiring

The problem we’re discussing isn’t “not paying attention while driving”, it’s attention fatigue bought on by requiring constant focus but not actually requiring any actions to be taken. The former is “it turned at an intersection without checking for obstacles” which is driver error. The latter is something that we know objectively that people cannot do. For the non-car cases where this occurs we can generally have many factors to ensure a safe outcome even if an emergency does occur when the operators is distracted. For aircraft the emergency outcomes basically have one of two responses, or there is time for the pilot to regain situational awareness (it takes a lot of time for a plane to go from altitude to sea level, for every other emergency the pilot is trained and commercial aircraft often explicitly state the operation to perform - go up or go down. Trains are spaced so that a train can always just apply emergency brakes, and the driver(engineer?) also knows to just brake as well. The problem with the self driving “attention” requirement is because they have chosen not to handle “emergency/failure occurs while driver is not paying attention”, instead they’re saying “you must always pay attention despite that demand being physiologically implausible” which means you get two outcomes: either the product does not work, or you get crashes from self drive disengaging without warning. The former results in people trying to hack around a faulty product, the latter is a liability shift “if the driver was paying attention as required this crash wouldn’t have happened”.