A motorist on a Massachusetts highway captured a man asleep behind the wheel of his Tesla, presumably in autopilot mode. It’s the latest incident involving semi-autonomous cars that have police and federal safety experts sounding an alarm.
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Tesla Driver Caught On Camera Apparently Asleep At The Wheel | NBC Nightly News
Some people don’t understand technology. Some people don’t understand technology and don’t read the manual. And some say okay whatever!
I believe autopilot will save more lives than people driving their own cars. I am four autopilot!
There needs to be more cars with autopilot. And people like that falls asleep at the wheel they need to take their driver’s test again with that car that has the autopilot future.
Tesla should change the feature to automatically pull over and shake the car or play a sound to wake the owner
People who cannot sleep on beds: First time?
Tesla advertised it as self driving
if it’s not auto pilot then don’t call it auto pilot
This auto pilot is safe right?? So no problem… If it not save, why not?? This auto pilot is approved right?? If not then old Skool is better.
whats the point of having a self driving car if you cant fall asleep while in your car
This takes the term “bad Asian drivers” to another level.
Driving by human on the highway is more dangerous than Tesla autopilot.
DWA driving while Asian.
Idiocracy coming soon
Deshalb sollten die Amis nur Pferde benutzen!
Dogecoin to the moon… 🐕📈🚀🚀🚀🚀💎💎💎
I ran a car off the road and into a hedge after just 24 hours awake. Now if i feel that head nodding i will just pull over, put a blanket over my eyes and sleep in the car and drive after i have woken up.
just wait 10 years later from now when people comment “WHAT,they used to get arrested for that.”
These people are so stupidly irresponsible makes me so happy when they lose their lives for it
I just loved it i wanna buy this car cause of this feature
Such insane trust for AI computer intelligence! This is the first hint that we will be eradicated by machines someday due to people like this trusting them.
not yet yall lol
Tesla – The brand for the walking dead
👀🤯🤯🤯🤯😵
Are all Tesla owners on drugs or something? Why are they all sleeping in their cars like 2 year olds? If you can’t stay awake while driving, you are clearly not physically or intellectually capable of driving any type of car at all. Just turn in your driver’s license. You don’t deserve it.
💩full🧠
So whether it’s called auto pilot or super cruise or blue cruise or whatever you wanna call it, the bottom line is we still have a laws in this country & every state has laws around who can drive & what are the requirements in order to be able to drive a motor vehicle on their roads & streets! So the laws hasn’t changed & every motor vehicle to be lawfully operated on public streets & roads must be operated by a licensed driver! So if you ignore these laws, if you ignore the proper operation of a motor vehicle, then it’s your fault & there’s no one else to blame except you! Driving inattentive, driving while under the influence of either legal or illegal substances is a no-no & it’s a violation of those rules, so when you get pulled over & issued a ticket, consider yourself lucky, because if you fall asleep behind the wheel of any other vehicle you probably won’t have to worry about paying your ticket or explaining to your insurance company or to a judge why you decided to operate in this illegal reckless manner, because you won’t be around to be able to talk to anyone or defend your actions because dead people can’t testify! So for instance the people who died in that crash in Texas with no one in the driver’s seat & the owner was found in the rear seat of the car, had he survived & his passenger died, he would be charged with vehicular homicide, but because both individuals died we will never know what they were thinking or what they were actually doing prior to the crash & if the vehicle was driving on auto pilot then there must have been a malfunction of the vehicle for it not to have stop before hitting the tree! So according to Tesla the vehicle was not driving on auto pilot & the owner of the car had not purchased the newest & latest update to auto pilot which is full self driving! Therefore it is not a stretch of the imagination to say that this individual clearly did something that he wasn’t supposed to be doing, because once again, to operate legally a motor vehicle on the streets & highways in any state in this country requires you to be licensed & should be properly operating the vehicle which means you must be in the driver’s seat & the fact that he wasn’t in the driver seat suggests that he was trying to defeat the system & if you’re stupid enough to defeat the system, you deserve to suffer the consequences of your own stupidity!
THEY’RE HIGH!!! THEY ARE TOTALLY NODDING OUT!
Chill my mans is living in the future…
Until he don’t
These two could be having a heart attack with a child in the back. It’s Tesla responsibility to safely find a spot, slowdown, park, and then activate the alarm. Tesla do the minimum to alert someone, so folks can get away with driving in a fully autonomous mode when it’s not.
Two people at the same time? No. It’s more likely drugs.
Funny thing the people who are video recording this should not be doing it also it either it’s illegal
Technology is advancing so fast, in like 20 yrs. this will be considered “normal” or safe driving. 🙂
Window tint anybody??
Ladies & Gentlemen, we did it. KNIGHT RIDER IS REAL!!!!!
These particular people drive better when they are asleep and the car is driving itself believe me….just leave them alone…
Tesla autopilot saves lives! Awesome!!
People themselves are always in autopilot.
Car journey activity of the future – screw ‘I spy’, that’s boring – your car game now is to check each Tesla to see if the driver is sleeping.
One day all vehicles will be fully automated.
These on road tests only serve Tesla to make a better self driving car.
Teslas are so boring to drive, this is no surprise
Would you rather have some with Narcolepsy or a Heroin/Xanax addiction fall asleep behind the wheel of Tesla on “Auto Pilot” or would you rather them fall asleep under those same conditions in a Non Auto Pilot vehicle??
Look Mom no hands. I can do sleep driving.
The real crime is him recoding while driving
im little confused because who is worst the men that sleep or the snitch that record him and send it to the press
I’m more worried about the guy filming while driving than the Tesla driving itself
There’s alot of snitches
musk approves
Dude said in my Tesla I Trust.
Just ban these stupid cars…
Why autopilot discovered? there are many abusive people, without its features, driver’s will always be alert and focus. AUTOPILOT for me is NEGATIVE!
We all know what I’ll use the auto pilot for 😉
i’ll take my chances!!!
brilliant tesla !
driver is sleeping and tesla keeps going and going !
TESLA … my next car !
God Bless everyone you can turn to God before it’s to late you have free will 😀
thank you elon musk
“good-luck everybody else”
Didn’t they have a joke about this in a episode of Fairly Odd Parents?
Tesla Autopilot is better than human.
Simpsons predicted this with Big Red’s truck. I guess the secret is out now
It’s common sense don’t sleep while driving
Same as the scientists in wuhan
Lets change the questions: Would you rather fall asleep at the wheel of a Tesla with Autopilot or a regular car? How many accidents per year in America are caused by falling asleep at the wheel? How many times have you nearly fallen asleep at the wheel?
He was passed TF OUT!
The driver might have bought fsd
1:05 i don’t think this guy understands the current capability of Teslas. if you want, you can wedge a tangerine in the steering wheel and the car will drive itself and park at the destination
@JNS You’re stuck in the past, unfortunately. I encourage you to watch some videos on the early full self driving beta. You can watch in real time how the Tesla monitors and tracks other vehicles, pedestrians, trucks, and other obstacles. The full capability is rough around the edges but it should not take long for them to refine and polish it to work flawlessly in 99% of scenarios. Tesla already collects millions of datapoints from their vehicles out on the road, and drivers have the option to “send back” a snippet of the past couple minutes of data for extra examination, should they encounter a serious problem with the autopilot on the road.
seriously though. If you don’t want to drive, and you can afford a tesla. Maybe ditch the tesla, buy a cheaper car, and hire a driver, or use uber lol. wtf. dumbasses
Awful invention.
Lies
The car saved them !!! And it duz drive its self
Hey, NBC: There are literally no systems in the world called ‘autopilot’ don’t require an attentive pilot at the wheel.
Car is smart, people are dumb.
Thanks Sam Hyde
Tesla’s in Auto drive don’t detect motorcycles 👀👀 please keep this in mind
Then why u got autopilot on you car tesla…if you’re gonna said keep your hands on stering wheel…that’s stupid isn’t ? Remove that feature then tesla…
People try to fault Tesla and drag then under with every problem😁, but they covered their as* with built in warnings! The autopilot (advanced cruise control) works well.
Pos cars
Not helpful for the image of Asian drivers.
Tesla autopilot just to impress your children .That’s it
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
lmao
Bruh
I have a Tesla with basic autopilot and I can say driving with it enabled is so much safer than disabled.
The basic autopilot is not perfect, but it is an extra set of eyes on the road that help me out if I get distracted/looking the wrong way.
The one thing I wish it would do is brake for a red light. It does set off an alarm to warn you that you are about to run it, but it takes no action (I know this because I drive home at night and was hoping the light would turn green before I got to it).
People are missing the point. The point is that even with a tesla you are required to be alert at the wheel. End of discussion. It’s a requirement for driving.
Who are we kidding? Theyre asian. Autopilot was probably the safer. Relax Im asian I know
FUD, those crashes had nothing to do with Tesla’s full self driving!
I wonder 💭 if that couple made it home 🏡 Alive
Brave new world 🤣
I know eventually it’s gonna happen cuz people gets too relaxed and assumed the car got everything under control due to new technologies built in like those new sensors where it warns drivers if other cars gets too close/autopilot mode/etc. so what happens is the driver put the full trust on their new car technologies and not realizing there’s still a risk as warned on the owners manual! People thinking their car is KITT from the 80s show 😂 but sorry to say that indestructible car is fake and even if it’s real maybe billionaires can afford it
So fake !!!!! All staged
It’s so crazy that people don’t take time to read the manual. Just because it’s in autopilot doesn’t mean you just relax and go to sleep. You have to supervise the thing as it drives. Anything can happen.
I’m old enough to remember when stupid people did the same things with cruise control.
Plot twist: The first two people were sitting in a car full of nerve gas.
Scripted
Ok
based
Yea…. There Biden voters so it’s ok!!!
Tesla got the best crash ratings because of how to car weighs
Zombie could drive a Tesla too.
that is why autopilot is created. if u can’t sleep in the car. then why we having auto pilot AI?
And THIS is lazy america
I think this was just a prank tbh
News are so ridiculous. There has been Way fewer accidents with an auto pilot Tesla than actually people falling asleep on the road
Yeah show 4 images of broken Tesla’s and now say they are unsafe compared to the 100000 car accidents we have because of people falling asleep on the road… fuckying fear farming news. Maybe in the future when everybody gets self driving cars, but don’t criticize the inventor on a few mal used.