I’m curious to see what this amounts to because Autopilot is already pretty sensitive to this. Pick up your phone or look away from the road for more than a few seconds and the in-cabin car notices and warns you. I don’t know of a comparable system in any car with self driving or without.
You’re not only endangering your own life, but you’re endangering others as well.
It’s one thing to do this on rare occasions to change a route on the navigation, or change a song.
But for many people, being on their phone is the norm and not the exception — that’s what’s crazy.
Edit: meant "self-driving" as opposed to theoretical FSD.
My point was even if you don't have "door-to-door good as a human driver really fully self-driving", the main feature of self-driving is that you should be able to not pay attention for a while. Personally I'm not sure that "proper" FSD will even be possible in the near future.
Marketing, marketing, especially to Americans.
Tesla's highlighting stuff that various other car brands have and I think there's also an influx of newish drivers that just didn't check what their cars were capable of (nobody reads the manual).
Very nice car though: excellent build quality and driving feel. Some aspects of the Google software not quite as good as Tesla’s however (but the maps/navigation are excellent, maybe even better than Tesla).
Autopilot is a suite of driver assistance features.
The driver assistance features can't assist the driver if there is no driver because they've moved to the backseat.
From a technical standpoint I understand what you're saying (autopilot didn't get any better at driving), but if autopilot is causing a stochastic safety issue with driver focus then addressing that is a good thing and makes the complete system safer.