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Tesla driver pulled over after wearing new Apple vision headset on highway
- throwup238 3y agoThe end of the video just shows him in a parking lot with a couple of cop cars driving behind him, not of a cop actually coming to his window. I think this is staged BS made for internet points. Edit: Called it. > Update 10:17 AM EST: When contacted by Gizmodo, Dante Lentini confirmed that the video was a “skit” that he made with friends and that he wasn’t arrested. https://gizmodo.com/apple-vision-pro-tesla-driver-arrested-autopilot-1851224830 https://gizmodo.com/apple-vision-pro-tesla-driver-arrested-a...
- 2024throwaway 3y agoI have seen several videos of people actively driving while wearing the headset. Not sure why you think it is staged.
- throwup238 3y agoIf he had actually been pulled over, he would have shown the interaction with police.
- epolanski 3y agoBeing pulled by multiple police cars may trigger some sense of "okay I should play nice and dumb and not push it further".
- r0m4n0 3y agoI was thinking this too. He was driving on the freeway in the first clip and obviously in a parking lot on the second so definitely filmed at different points in time which I noticed as feeling faked. The fact that there were multiple officers seems a bit extreme for the situation but I guess plausible. Also interesting that the police cars pulled up directly behind him while he was filming which is a point toward it being legitimate. One thing you can't argue is this person is not smart and is filming themselves doing dangerous things for clicks.
- lotsofpulp 3y agoProbably prudent to assume everything is staged (or misrepresented). “Ragebait” is the term for this type of media, I think.
- solarpunk 3y agoit's almost like this is pure conspicuous consumption.
- qmarchi 3y agoPlay stupid games, win stupid prizes. As someone who was in an accident less than a week ago due to an inattentive driver: ## PLEASE PAY ATTENTION TO THE ROAD. YOU'RE NOT THE ONLY ONE THERE.
- golergka 3y agoHow is that different from cars that project information on the windshield? The virtual windows are right there in front of you where the road is, not a smartphone that you have to move your eyes to. (This is an question, not an argument. I don't drive, so I honestly don't understand).
- ender341341 3y agoMostly cause externally it's impossible to tell if they're watching a movie or just have some sort of HUD up for navigation.
- nwiswell 3y agoMainly because laws. Refer to CA Veh Code § 23120 (2022) > No person shall operate a motor vehicle while wearing glasses having a temple width of one-half inch or more if any part of such temple extends below the horizontal center of the lens so as to interfere with lateral vision. FWIW, I think this is entirely legitimate, since your peripheral vision is definitely impaired. That wouldn't be the case if the information was on a HUD instead. But even if there was some hypothetical VR headset that has perfect peripheral vision pass-through, it's still at best ambiguously legal until the legislature takes action. By the way, a HUD is probably illegal too, CA Veh Code § 26708 (2022) > (2) A person shall not drive any motor vehicle with any object or material placed, displayed, installed, affixed, or applied in or upon the vehicle that obstructs or reduces the driver's clear view through the windshield or side windows. There is a list of exceptions to this, but none appear to apply.
- adolph 3y agoSo no safety goggles?
- rootusrootus 3y agoOf course it was a Tesla driver. Sigh. I like this car well enough, but dammit sometimes I don't want to be associated with the fans.
- markn951 3y ago“Sometimes”?
- carrja99 3y agoYou and me both, buddy. You and me both. Elon fans are the absolute worst.
- cpncrunch 3y agoOr the CEO.
- epolanski 3y agoEspecially the CEO.
- shakow 3y agoIts CEO's flaws are more publicized than any other car companies, but I think it's better to separate the CEO from your everyday car. People most probably do not support evading Japanese sovereign law when driving a Renault, pissing on environmental regulations when driving a VW or maintaining the iron grip of a familial dynasty on South Korea when driving a Samsung. Compared to the people at this level, most of us here are mere peons trying to find the best fit for our daily driver.
- cpncrunch 3y agoI don't know if any of those things would impact car ownership. One of the main reasons to dislike Musk is his penchant for saying embarrassingly racist, anti-trans or otherwise similar views, although that also wouldn't impact car ownership. What would be concerning for ownership of his products are his complete botching of twitter in multiple ways, seemingly driving it into the ground, and his mercurial way of running Tesla (removing then adding the ultrasonic sensors, constantly discounting new cars, etc).
- ok_dad 3y agoThere have been numerous videos of idiots wearing a Vision Pro in vehicles and on busy streets and other places. The dumbest of the dumb seem to have gotten all of the preorders this time. I saw one of a person in a cybertruck and it’s 7000+ pounds of mass moving down the highway.
- smoldesu 3y agoIt's a bit silly to pretend like the Vision Pro was destined for surgeons and rocket scientists. We did the same cat-and-mouse routine chasing down real-world workflows in Windows Mixed Reality, and the US Army was the only organization willing to foot the bill. The idiots are likely Apple's largest market, here.
- RajT88 3y agoReminds me of some of the Glassholes I met back when that was a thing. Take that stupid fucking thing off your face when you're talking to me. All you're proving is that you have $1500 to set on fire.
- matsemann 3y agoI'm sure everyone using this in public right now is 100 % doing it to get attention and show off. It looks quite dorky, though. But who knows, maybe it works for Apple the same way the iPod or AirPods became a fashion article.
- mdhb 3y agoThere is zero chance that strapping a giant rectangular box to your face is going to considered anything other than very weird by the majority of people.
- thomasmg 3y agoI was skiing last week, where ski goggles are the norm... So yes, currently it might be weird, but things change. Did you watch or read "Ready Player One"? There it is the norm.
- gertop 3y agoReady Player One is a work of fiction.
- ChicagoBoy11 3y agoAs a (so far happy) Vision Pro owner, I completely agree with you. However, I remember when they launched the AirPods how just so immediately repulsed I was by that thing, how I truly felt like it looked like a tampon coming out of someone's ear, yet somehow, here we are. I grant you that this is, to put it mildly, a bit more of a stretch. But if somehow wearing VR glasses (don't care what apple says, these are VR glasses) will become mainstream, something tells me they'll be the ones to pull it off.
- throwup238 3y agoThey still make everyone look like tampon cybermen. (I own two pairs)
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- bdcravens 3y agoIn related news, approximately 4000 people are pulled over and arrested per day for DWI.
- vardump 3y agoSee https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39261349 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39261349 (exact reply: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39262976 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39262976) > > Update 10:17 AM EST: When contacted by Gizmodo, Dante Lentini confirmed that the video was a “skit” that he made with friends and that he wasn’t arrested. Tesla anything and it's front page news.
- dns_snek 3y agoI don't know whether this belongs to HN, but how does that update change anything? Does recklessly endangering other people for internet points make it less serious than doing it out of pure ignorance? If anything, I'd say it makes it more serious.
- vardump 3y agoI'm assuming it's done with video tricks, like compositing etc. I'd certainly hope no one was actually endangering anything!
- dang 3y agoFor a few minutes, and then users will probably flag it off. This is the cycle of life on HN.
- MichaelZuo 3y agoThis 'taimurkazmi' user seems to post a huge number of 'flagged' or 'dead' submissions, so probably has some axe to grind, as judged by those with flagging permissions at least.
- JackFr 3y agoWithout having seen the video, from the details in the article, I will assume it was either staged or fake.
- 29decibel 3y agoSurprise to me that the iPhone do not allow you to use while driving the car, while Vision Pro is fine?
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- throwio 3y agoThis is what makes America great. Things like this never happen in my country..
- radar1310 3y agoIt doesn’t take long for the morons to appear.