According to electrek, Tesla cars are very advanced, but the method used to verify whether the driver is paying attention in the autopilot mode is very primitive, basically relying on monitoring the driver’s occasional The anti-torque input on the steering wheel.
Tesla has always been equipped with internal cameras facing the driver , and some people have been asking Tesla to use these cameras to monitor the driver’s attention, but the company refused to do so. The Tesla hacker Green discovered that Tesla has begun to develop a driver monitoring system based on internal cameras.
When examining Tesla’s car software, the hacker discovered that its neural network was trying to divide the scenes seen by the internal camera into the following categories:
BLINDED
DARK
EYES_CLOSED
EYES_DOWN
EYES_NOMINAL
EYES_UP
HEAD_DOWN
HEAD_TRUNC
LOOKING_LEFT
LOOKING_RIGHT
PHONE_USE
SUNGLASSES_EYES_LIKELY_NOMINAL
SUNGLASSES_LIKELY_EYES_DOWN
Naijatechnews learned that Tesla only started using internal cameras for data collection in the cabin a year ago and told the driver that they collected anonymous data before the accidentto improve the safety of the vehicle. It is not clear when this feature will enter the ranks of production cars.
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