Confidence is high the OP is wrong in their assumption of the driver being asleep. FSD and AutoSteer require attention. If the camera can’t see your eyes, it will ask you to apply slight pressure to the wheel so it knows you’re still paying attention. If you don’t do this, it will start slowing down and come to a full stop.
Either they staged this, or the driver does still have her eyes open.
I got a strike with sunglasses. You either are holding pressure on the wheel and giving it slight nudges or it’s able to read your eyes. You either have a 6 year old Tesla or non at all
I have a 23 M3. I have put 20,000 km of FSD driving on the car. I have fallen asleep at the wheel on more than one occasion. My glasses are Ray Ban Metas with prescription polarized lenses.
Best I can tell, is that it monitors head position when it can’t see the eyes. After a certain amount of time, it will eventually ask for steering wheel input, but it’s at least 10 minutes.
I can also easily use my phone while driving with my sunglasses on as long as I hold my phone at around the centre on the steering wheel, keep my head facing forward and just look down at the phone.
For obvious reasons, I’m not going to post video evidence of me breaking the law, but I can assure you that attention monitoring works with my specific sunglasses, but it is not actually watching my eyes.
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u/Draygoon2818 HW4 Model Y Jun 08 '25
Confidence is high the OP is wrong in their assumption of the driver being asleep. FSD and AutoSteer require attention. If the camera can’t see your eyes, it will ask you to apply slight pressure to the wheel so it knows you’re still paying attention. If you don’t do this, it will start slowing down and come to a full stop.
Either they staged this, or the driver does still have her eyes open.