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This is not the story that the headline makes it out to be:

> After about 15 minutes, the man finally woke up .. he showed typical drug failure symptoms

> the officers found what is known as a steering wheel weight, which is used to .. the car the illusion that your hands are on the wheel

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It is exactly the story that the headline makes out. The driver fell asleep. The autopilot didnt respond to signals from the police to pull over. This is because it doesn't have that feature. But since it's on the road and advertised as self driving, it really should have this feature because drivers will try to get around whatever protections manufacturers put in place and fall asleep because they're on drugs, have a medical condition or are just arseholes.

The autopilot is already advertised as having the ability to pull over safely if the driver falls asleep.

Allegedly the driver intentionally overrode the safety features that would have allowed it to do this.

> it really should have this feature because drivers will try to get around whatever protections manufacturers put in place

.. no, because that could include safety features that will give the police control over the vehicle.

Autopilot is not advertised as self driving.

"Full Self Driving"

???

Explain what you mean

Autopilot and FSD are two different products.

This article has nothing to do with "Full Self Driving".

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