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by Dan_Nguyen 3440 days ago
I'm in the same boat as you here. Level 2 and 3 are unsafe for me as an individual. When I drive, actively focusing on the road and driving keeps me awake. When I'm a passenger, the lack of mental concentration plus the gentle rocking motion of a moving car knocks me out within ten minutes.

The current Tesla autopilot is obviously working well for many people, but for myself I have to wait until level 4. Anything more hands on than that is inherently unsafe because of my habits.

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What kind of "CARTCHA" challenges and games might be fun to play, to prove to your car that you were paying attention to the road and traffic, yet not distract you from being ready to take over driving?

Computer vision and speech recognition could be useful for proving the driver's awake, as well as driving the car itself.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car_numberplate_game

The challenge of driving the car manually, without any hyped autopilot.
This. There's nothing else because any other task requires diverting mental focus away from the act of constantly assessing the changing environment around your car. That by definition leads to slower reaction times.
It's the reverse for my wife. She starts driving and within minutes gets tired. She'll switch to passenger and be wide awake for hours.