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Old Crank

(6,278 posts)
Fri Oct 3, 2025, 03:28 AM 3 hrs ago

Sounds like lawsuits coming up...

Tesla is advising motorists who are dozing off to turn on their self driving feature, while stating that you need to be alert to use it in their literature.

Personally any of these systems should never allow speeding.

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According to new reporting from Wired, the Musk-led company has started recommending drowsy motorists to switch over to FSD whenever it detects them falling asleep behind the wheel. These recommendations, per the magazine, are delivered as in-car messages that pop up on the infotainment screen, which owners began noticing earlier this month.

“Lane drift detected. Let FSD assist so you can stay focused,” reads one message cited by the magazine.

“Drowsiness detected. Stay focused with FSD,” read another.

Tesla has had lane-departure warnings for years, But now they’re an unashamed advertisement for FSD, encouraging already half-slumbering drivers to hand over the controls to an unreliable piece of software that lulls them into a false sense of security, if not back to sleep. It’s an approach fraught with contradictions, since, as Tesla warns in the fine print — as well as in the conspicuous “(Supervised)” label it tacked onto the mode’s name — FSD requires you to be constantly alert.

“Tesla is basically giving a series of conflicting instructions,” Alexandra Mueller, a senior research scientist at the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety who studies driver assistance technologies, told Wired. “When you suspect the driver is becoming drowsy, to remove even more of their physical engagement — that seems extremely counterproductive.”



https://nz.news.yahoo.com/tesla-tells-sleepy-drivers-switch-192310159.html

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