Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submitlogin

> If the AI determines you’re impaired (blood alcohol ≥0.08% or showing fatigue), it can prevent ignition startup or limit vehicle speed.

Tesla does absolutely nothing like this. The closest things are that it'll kick you out of AP/FSD if you're screwing around with your phone, and it'll advise you use AP/FSD if you're driving manually and pinging between lane lines.



I’m talking about general attention tracking, but this is still just an extension of that and not “surveillance.”

It’s also a hypothetical at this point because the system doesn’t exist, and there’s no consensus about whether it’s “fail open,” vulnerable to a centimeter square patch of electrical tape, or if it can randomly brick your car when it has errors. I would bet on the former.


You'd certainly hope that manufacturers conclude bricking a car when this system doesn't work is an unacceptable level of legal exposure.


Oh and Telsa already detects fatigue[1], which is a form of driving while impaired, so yes it does do something like this.

[1] https://www.tesla.com/ownersmanual/model3/en_eu/GUID-65BF21B...


> it'll advise you use AP/FSD if you're driving manually and pinging between lane lines.




Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: