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Tesla Is Urging Drowsy Drivers to Use 'Full Self-Driving'. That Could Go Very Wrong
The company’s FSD tech doesn’t actually self-drive. Experts say that advising customers to switch it on when they're drifting between lanes is exactly the wrong move.
In research in the aviation sector, it's called the " out-of-the-loop performance problem," where pilots, relying on fully automated systems, can fail to adequately monitor for malfunctions due to complacency after extended periods of operation. “As humans, as we get tired or we get fatigued, taking away more things that we need to do could actually backfire,” says Charlie Klauer, a research scientist and engineer who studies drivers and driving performance at the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute. Tesla is also awaiting the result of an administrative court hearing conducted over the summer in California after the state’s Department of Motor Vehicles accused the automaker of misleading customers over what it advertised as its self-driving ability.
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