I mean I wouldn't recommend it, but realistically Tesa's autopilot is good enough that you would have the extra 1 second it takes to take off the headset to react.
FYI: According to the twitter comments, the Cybertruck does not have autopilot.
Wow wtf? One that this person is doing this without autopilot is crazy. But also crazy that Tesla would ship the Cybertruck without autopilot support.
Yeah, Cybertruck is shipping without some of its major features enabled. They also have diff lockers that can't be engaged. :facepalm
Autopilot is a standard Tesla feature which is different than full self driving or FSD.
True, but it isn't available on Cybertruck yet. The software is effectively incomplete.
I remember from driving school that it only takes one second to have an accident.
Sure but autopilot can brake and steer to avoid an accident. Though apparently the Cybertruck doesn't actually have this yet? That makes this completely fucking crazy.
There have already been accidents where some people have had exactly this opinion - that "autopilot" can brake/steer enough to avoid an accident - and crashed or died as a result.
That’s true. You never know when someone’s tire’s gonna blow out. And I think the added disorientation from having to hastily remove an unanticipated blindfold would contribute negatively, as well. I could even see myself pausing for a beat thinking it would come back.
I was driving last week and a shovel fell out of the back of a work truck in front of me on the expressway going 75mph. It bounced erratically across the road. I was hanging back, as I usually do from trucks like that, and was able to slow down to stay well out of the way. The shovel caught some bounces that threw it to the side of the road (through a bunch of cars merging on the expressway). Had I been in a Tesla, following close with autopilot, and screwing around on a headset, I probably would have gotten a shovel through my windshield.