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A driver using Tesla Autopilot improperly was caught on camera by another driver, leading to his arrest:
A driver who moved into the passenger seat after putting his electric car into autopilot while at 40mph on a motorway has been banned from driving.
Bhavesh Patel, 39, of Alfreton Road, Nottingham, pleaded guilty to dangerous driving at St Albans Crown Court. A witness in another car filmed him sitting in the passenger seat of his Tesla S 60 on the M1 between junctions 8 and 9 near Hemel Hempstead.
Patel said he was the "unlucky one who got caught", the court was told.
The footage was posted on social media before it was reported to the police.
Also at The Guardian.
As well as the 18-month driving ban he was ordered to carry out 100 hours of unpaid work. He was also put on a 10-day rehabilitation programme and will have to pay £1,800 in costs.
[...] Road investigators were told by Tesla engineers that the autopilot function, including traffic-aware cruise control and auto-steer, was only intended to assist a "fully attentive driver".
(Score: 4, Insightful) by zocalo on Sunday April 29 2018, @09:13PM (1 child)
Now if you could, for instance, replace the 100 hours of unpaid work from the sentence with 100 hours of having to survive in an environment where lack of common sense is liable to get you killed then we might have a viable (and highly entertaining) solution. Hell, there are already reality TV shows that get pretty close to this setup, so it would just be more of the same only without the safety net of people who know what they are doing prepared to intervene if some clueless D-list celeb tries to eat something poisonous or whatever.
UNIX? They're not even circumcised! Savages!
(Score: 1) by JustNiz on Tuesday May 29 2018, @07:43PM
I'd agree with your statement if humankind wsn't already doing everything it can (and sadly, largely succeeding) in eliminating any/all natural selection in humans.