Transportation head says drivers must pay attention at all times after clips emerge of some using what looks like Apple’s Vision Pro

US transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg on Monday said human drivers must pay attention at all times after videos emerged of people wearing what appeared to be Apple’s recently released Vision Pro headset while driving Teslas.

Buttigieg responded on Twitter/X to a video that had more than 24m views of a Tesla driver who appeared to be gesturing with his hands to manipulate a virtual reality field.

Despite their names, Tesla’s assisted driving features – Autopilot, Enhanced Autopilot and Full Self-Driving – do not mean the vehicles are fully autonomous, Buttigieg said Monday on social media.

“Reminder – ALL advanced driver assistance systems available today require the human driver to be in control and fully engaged in the driving task at all times,” Buttigieg said.

  • Dark ArcEnglish
    3•5 months ago

    I think the other comments have touched on the motion sickness point enough…

    I’m not sure where your line is between “fake” and “staged” but if they are only putting the headset on for the purpose of the video and they don’t actually drive around that way, I’m calling that fake. Because they aren’t actually using the headset except to draw attention to the fact that they are wearing the headset. People aren’t actually doing this. They created a fake controversy.

    As for this, I only use fake if what appears to have happened didn’t actually happen, e.g. it looks like somebody got stabbed but they definitely didn’t (be it CGI, camera angles, fake knives, etc).

    Where as staged is more “that’s what actually happened” but it happened intentionally to make a video. “Here’s your sign” and influencer videos can definitely qualify lol

    • @MagicShel@programming.dev
      0•5 months ago

      Okay. I’m not saying the guy wasn’t actually wearing the googles. I’m saying the guy doesn’t actually wear the goggles except when he’s wearing them to poke fun at how ridiculous it would be to wear them. They are being worn ironically, not because the dude actually goes around wearing VR googles in his car.

      For one, if a cop ever saw him, he’d be pulled over and cited, and he’d wind up in a fucking car chase and never even know it. Does autopilot automatically pull over for emergency vehicles? I can’t believe anyone is treating this with an ounce of seriousness except for the fact that morons that can’t tell the whole thing is a joke will actually go and do it.