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.

  • queermunist she/her
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    -910 months ago

    The term “motorist” generally refers specifically to people who travel by car. Truckers are a different category.

    That said! Society does not need to be structured in a way where everything is delivered by trucks and it’s actually extremely bad!

    • @RaoulDook
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      610 months ago

      Sure keep moving those goalposts, that’ll do it