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> Tesla has been kept alive only because they are scared to even let drivers take their hands off the wheel. They have very low confidence in the system to allo

> Tesla has been kept alive only because they are scared to even let drivers take their hands off the wheel. They have very low confidence in the system to allow for driver inattention, let alone completely remove the driver. Numerous software “rewrites” over the years with many buzzwords attached, and they still haven’t clocked a single driverless mile. That is quite backwards. When they first launched, the steering wheel checks were every fifteen minutes. They reduced it to five minutes, and slowly had to be dragged kicking and screaming due to threats from the NHTSA to get to where it is now. Even now, most of their attitude to it has been very nudge nudge wink wink, "yeah, they make us tell you to pay attention but you don't have to" (until you do get in a collision, and they throw you under the bus, of course).

ra7 3y ago
> until you do get in a collision, and they throw you under the bus, of course You made my point for me. It's less about steering wheel checks and more about taking liability. They can remove the driver and take liability only if they are confident in their system. They are not.
- FireBeyond 3y ago
  Not really. They don't care about the liability until they have to. That's why they didn't care about steering wheel checks either. Tesla were not scared to "even let drivers take their hands off the wheel". It was the NHTSA who said "No, actually, you need to be", and started forcing their hand to actually implementing the checks (or rather with a reasonable interval).