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UK Driver Banned for Riding in Passenger Seat While Using Tesla Autopilot Mode

posted by janrinok on Sunday April 29 2018, @08:08PM   Printer-friendly
from the my-invisible-friend dept.

takyon writes:

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".

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  • (Score: 4, Informative) by requerdanos on Monday April 30 2018, @12:43AM

    by requerdanos (5997) Subscriber Badge on Monday April 30 2018, @12:43AM (#673536) Journal

    The (non) driver isn't british. He's ... probably a paki

    First of all: This article concerns, according to TFA, "Bhavesh Patel, 39, of Alfreton Road, Nottingham." That's in the UK. There is nothing in TFA to suggest he isn't from the UK. Perhaps he is originally from elsewhere and moved to the UK, but that isn't a given, and enough natives are named "Patel" that it's not an exceptional thing to find one in the headlines, especially if he is an idiot.

    Second of all: Even were someone to take your nonsense seriously, Pakistan still does not have a population anywhere near a billion. Despite [worldometers.info] checking [wikipedia.org] several [tradingeconomics.com] sources [poverties.org], I don't see anyone who even admits to a quarter as many.

    If a certain place does not have a billion people, then that place, by definition, does not have a billion people wanting for plumbing. Your statements have not changed this. Perhaps you, too, should check your figures.

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