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.
Dumbasses, the videos are fake viral marketing.
Marketing for what? Being incredibly stupid?
Marketing for the Apple VR, which is working, because now we have hundreds of news articles, social media posts and now the goverment talking about it.
So you’re saying Apple paid these people?
I agree the video is fake, but if it can be proved this was done on public land the driver should still lose their licence.