US transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg on Monday said human drivers must pay attention at all times after videos emerged of people wearing what appeared to be Apple’s recently released Vision Pro headset while driving Teslas.
Buttigieg responded on Twitter/X to a video that had more than 24m views of a Tesla driver who appeared to be gesturing with his hands to manipulate a virtual reality field.
Despite their names, Tesla’s assisted driving features – Autopilot, Enhanced Autopilot and Full Self-Driving – do not mean the vehicles are fully autonomous, Buttigieg said Monday on social media.
“Reminder – ALL advanced driver assistance systems available today require the human driver to be in control and fully engaged in the driving task at all times,” Buttigieg said.
You keep insisting that it was staged, and nobody is disputing that it may have been staged. But your argument is that nobody could possibly do this, when “this” is precisely the function the headset was designed for.
I’m with you, VR and AR always makes me motion sick, too. But that’s not what happens for everyone. The reason you’re being downvoted is that you’re certain it was staged, but your reasoning doesn’t make sense.
You can walk and drive with one on (you should absolutely not drive with one on). What doesn’t work when you’re moving is the apps. You have to stop walking to interact with an app. There’s the one video of the guy in the crosswalk who stops in the road to click something. Plenty of videos show what you see while walking around wearing the headset.
There’s also Travel Mode for when you’re on a bus or airplane, or in a car (again, DON’T DRIVE WHILE WEARING A HEADSET) that ignores your motion and keeps the interface near you, but I don’t know how well it works.
So to sum up, yes it is possible that these videos are legitimate users being stupid. It’s also possible that they are staged ragebait. Either way, don’t wear one when you should be paying attention to your surroundings.
I appreciate your perspective. Have you seen the video? Because it was fucking ridiculous. Perhaps the reasoning I’m able to articulate doesn’t hold water but I’m like just waving my arms at the video and saying, “just fucking look at it - it’s staged.” The way that guy gets out of the car like he’s dual wielding pistols in the parking lot? Come on. The video is self-aware that it is absolutely ridiculous.
Wait, no, which video are you talking about? I’m talking about (and I assume everyone else is talking about) the guy in the link above who is behind the wheel of a tesla truck cruising along and using his headset. What video are you talking about?
Yeah the one I saw was like 2 seconds of the guy cruising along and then it cuts to him getting out of the truck in a parking lot waving his arms about like he’s living out a John Woo movie.