You can't fix stupid. However that being said it will happen and happen a lot in the future no matter what the DOT idiot or the maroon JimmyG thinks. Tech adoption is raising at such a rate that the future is here.
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Video of Tesla Driver Wearing Vision Pro Sparks Government Warning
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If I say some advertising is better than no advertising. Has anyone else seen the barrage of ads for the expensive Vision Pro. I’ve never seen this much advertising on a “pro” product. I think the idea is to get it out into the human eye. I’m sure we will see the usual celebrities get their free headset which always boggles my mind.
It was not just predictable, but inevitable. I owned a printing business in a Hasidic enclave in Chicago back in the 1990's, and I saw many, many men reading a copy of the Torah propped up against the steering wheel while driving down the street. Then came the phones, and people crossing the lane divider and not using turn signals while talking on the phone. Then texting. When that became illegal, I saw people driving with their faces looking down at their laps so the troopers couldn't see them texting. Who didn't know idiots were going to wear this headset while driving? Apple did, and put out a weak caution about it, probably fearing lost sales with a stronger statement.
Interesting coincidence.
How often do you drive by a car, do have your camera at the right spot and get the opportunity to tape something like this? About like to win the Powerball - or something like that.
come on...
Good move Pete. - create that situation and tell all the possible morons not to do that.
How often do you drive by a car, do have your camera at the right spot and get the opportunity to tape something like this? About like to win the Powerball - or something like that.
come on...
Good move Pete. - create that situation and tell all the possible morons not to do that.
I think that's the entire reason why this was recorded.I get the feeling this guy is going to get meme'd for years to come... at least he got the Internet fame he probably wanted.
I imagine NHTSA will force Tesla to send out a software update recall to disable driving assistance if it detects the AVP. Somewhere there is a lawyer already drafting his class action website against Tesla and Apple for not preventing stupidity.
Apple is in a pickle. They could implement something to disable AVP if the accelerometer detects you are moving more than 5 MPH, but what action should they take? Turn off the cameras in the middle of a parking lot or school crossing?
It's not a public road. Look at the surface. It's clickbait.
Please don't run for office. Let's just extend those bans everywhere, even where they don't make sense shall we?Very simple solution...a federal regulation and state regulations banning the use of such devices when operating a motor vehicle or transportation device of any sort (planes, trains, cars, motorcycles, scooters, boats, skateboards, rollerblades, etc. etc.) that will result in the immediate confiscation of the device used with the device being recycled, the immediate impounding of the vehicle it was used with, a immediate revokation and/or suspension of one's operator's license with mandatory application and training and succesful test requirements for a new license, mandatory heavy fines and possible mandatory imprisonment for reckless operation.
In a nutshell, zero mercy for those with such contempt towards the lives and property of others.
If you're on a skateboard or rollerblade and you're doing what the guy/gal in the video is doing, you'll crash immediately. Obviously you'd have to be using it in full passthrough, and there's no harm in that — as people have shown playing pingpong.
The problem in the video is someone using an autopilot and clearly being distracted.
Reserve your bans for what makes sense. Don't go overboard just because you're angry.
If someone is dumb enough to buy both a Vision Pro and a Tesla you can bet they’re dumb enough to drive that Tesla while wearing their Vision Pro.
I saw a tweet yesterday from a newpaper asking Elon why Tesla doesn't block this kind of usage (or when they would send out an update to block it).
He will probably be fine in that death machine steel plated truck, it will be some poor sap driving a honda civic that bites it after getting crushed under it
Sounds me like Elon rubbed the government wrong because they don’t like what he had to say about them, so now it’s just vendettas against the man. Blame the drivers, don’t blame the car or manufacturer. Sure, Ford’s have left people stranded more times than people can count but we don’t hear about that nonstop in the news 😂
Even more so, if the drivers want to drive like a total JA, then strip them permanently of their license. Driving is a privilege, not a right. Start making hard examples and watch how fast this nonsense stops.
Even more so, if the drivers want to drive like a total JA, then strip them permanently of their license. Driving is a privilege, not a right. Start making hard examples and watch how fast this nonsense stops.
While it's almost certainly clickbait, it does appear to be taking place on a public road. There are other vehicles waiting at red lights, and the driver passes a sign advertising office space in "Traverse Mountain," which is in Utah. Based on what I see on Google Maps, it looks like it might have been near the Adobe campus in Lehi.
EDIT: Just pinpointed it on Google Maps/Street View. That crosswalk signal is where Morning Vista Road intersects with Highway 92.
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Brandon Fugal who owns Skinwalker Ranch (real estate agent on the sign). Industrial estate?
I see a future SNL skit coming out of this. "Things you CAN do with the Vision Pro, but probably shouldn't." I can already imagine the SNL actors stumbling all over the place, trying to hit a baseball, perform microvascular surgery, etc., while wearing the Vision Pro.
I edited my post with an update. I pinpointed the location — it's on Utah Highway 92.
We tried that with Tide Pods, but sadly they weren't poisonous enough.