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.
At 1:10 in the video I can see some FPS and latency issues which is exactly what makes folks sick in the first place. Dude says he’s had it for an hour at that point. I wonder how long he’d actually been wearing it. But absent any sort of evidence that this is a misrepresentation, I’ll take it at face value.
If this guy actually used pass-thru for an hour straight without getting sick, he’s certainly the first one I’ve seen. It’s an impressive feat and kudos for finding it.