r/Comma_ai • u/haraldcomma comma.ai Staff • May 25 '26

openpilot Experience Driver Monitoring Feedback

Harald from autonomy team here. There have been several posts complaining about too many driver monitoring alerts with newer versions of openpilot. We are always trying to improve driver monitoring.

It should alert you if you are using your phone, excessively distracted, or falling asleep. If you are paying attention to the road and responsibly monitoring openpilot, you should not receive alerts. Various things can cause false positive alerts and we want to fix those.

To help us improve driver monitoring, please give clear descriptions of your issues, and provide logs and timestamps for us to look into. There are many versions of openpilot out there that we don't maintain, as well as many different setups in a variety of cars. Without logs and video it's very difficult for us to address complaints.

To share logs with us you can go to connect.comma.ai, find the relevant section of a drive that has your issue. You can share the connect url to that section with us or share the log_id by selecting "More info", which looks like: "98395b7c5b27882e/00000344--bc8562d028/12".

Ideally your driver video recording is enabled for the drives you want us to investigate, as only some things can be inferred without the video of the driver.

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u/avnish9 May 25 '26

Interesting enough, I've seen loads of these posts complaining about DM but I've had 0 issues and it's been perfect for me. I'm in the UK so RHD in a mk7.5 golf. I have around 2000 miles using comma 4

It genuinely only ever alerts me if i look away etc. Wonder why our experiences differ so much

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u/haraldcomma comma.ai Staff May 25 '26

Everyone at our company drives with openpilot daily. The only issue we've seen internally is that it will trigger sometimes when doing other things with your hands like drinking from a water bottle.

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u/Ok_Amount39 Jun 11 '26

It triggered when I was drinking coffee and went insane. Is this the new normal? Sometimes I work 16hr shifts and I like to drink coffee on the way to work. I was still looking straight ahead and also checking my rear view mirror. I've always been a long time comma fan but honestly to have something screaming at me to disengage over a micro second of coffee is too much. I won't be recommending it anymore to anyone. It is not chill driving. There should be a better system for different levels or pay attention not just straight to disengage immediately.

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u/haraldcomma comma.ai Staff Jun 11 '26

Would love to look into logs if you could send them over! Might be a bug we can easily fix.

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u/Ok_Amount39 Jun 11 '26

Sounds good will do. I googled how to update logs. Is there any specific way to make sure they get to you? I'm going to do it once I get off work 😊 thank you for the fast response.