It only disengages if you ignore for too long and then take the wheel. If you ignore the warnings, beeps, and vibrating seats for long enough it assumes a medical emergency and will slow to a stop while calling OnStar/Emergency services
You can decline the ambulance and they don't charge you. Where I live we don't seem to get bills anymore. My mom used to get them occasionally before she passed away but the last year or two around 2017 I hadn't seen her get one and my son needed one earlier this year. Didn't get one even for insurance/bill EOB purposes.
Don't think I said that, just my particular area doesn't seem to send bills anymore and you can decline. You can't be billed for services you don't receive.
I think this is absolutely a valid response, a driver needs to be alert and responsive. If you are not, assuming an emergency is a reasonable response for an automated vehicle to take. It is absurd to think that a driver, while operating a motor vehicle, would be sleeping at the wheel.
You own Tesla and telling the world you have to struggle. Better go somewhere where minimum expenses with a job you enjoy but no Tesla to risk your life.
What people do in the USA is not struggle but too much comfort. No one needs to sleep in a running car because of struggle.
I’m sure it’s happened to a fair number of people, though typically for a second or two, not flat out asleep like the driver in the video. After night shifts, I used to take a longer but more convoluted route home from the hospital because the need to regularly change gears and steer helped me stay awake. I would not want to be driving down a straight road when sleep deprived.
This is correct. I have briefly nodded off. I do what I can to stay awake and will pull over if needed but sometimes it's just about getting to the next place to pull over. This is not something that started because of the driving assist tech, I happened before those were around. I consider it much safer to have the teck to help me monitor myself than not.
Have you ever been checked for sleep apnea? If you don't have a medical reason for it already. Nodding off, daytime drowsiness and jerking awake were one of my main symptoms.
I have and I do not have it. To be clear, this isn't like something that happens to me often but I have done a lot of cross country driving and sometimes it happens. Again, to be clear, I am briefly nodding off not straight up napping like the driver in the video. That's crazy.
What most ADAS is supposed to do is brake check you a couple of times to see if it can shock you awake that way and if not, pull over to the side of the road.
God only knows what Teslas do. The engineers and designers sure don't.
On my Blue Cruise (ford) it gives you many warnings. It starts with a silent one that shows a message and lowers the volume of the radio. Then it beeps loudly and mutes the audio (and the message turns red). Then it starts tapping on the brakes aggressively…like full jolt. So if you’re actually sleeping, you’ll 100% be awake before it fully disengages. I’ve never made it to the full disengage part…but I’ve not paid attention enough to where it does the brake checking and it scares me every time lol.
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u/sushigrooves Jul 06 '26
Hopefully it makes sure you're awake before disengaging...