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by iddqd 2076 days ago
I hope as soon as EYES_CLOSED trigger loud alarms go off and the car slows down carefully, with or without autopilot enabled.

You should probably stay off the roads if you’re having these issues and/or seek help to resolve them.
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Reason077 2076 days ago
Bjørn Nyland on YouTube drives a lot of different EVs in Norway, and one of the thing he tests is the Lane Assist/Autopilot/driver assist disengagement behaviour if there is no response from the driver.

It seems like some cars will actually try to kill you - they'll beep a bit and try to alert you, then if you don't respond the autopilot will simply disengage. And drive off the road or into whatever.

The better ones (such as the new Polestar) go to great efforts to try and alert you (noise, flashing lights, tugging on seatbelt tensioner) then will finally activate hazard lights, slow down gradually, and pull over safely.

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dosshell 2076 days ago
No it won't do that directly. Even if it is longer then a blink. And the reason for that is false positives. It is _very_ hard to see the difference between a person looking down and when the person is closing the eye.

The system usally have an EXTENDED_EYE_CLOSURE signal that is triggered after a certain time (together with a quality value of this signal). So not directly, but yes, close too.

But it is still tricky. What happens if you start blinking and then the camera get covered. Should it warn? It can not always warn if it loses tracking.

How should it warn? Disturbing the driver can actually cause accidents.

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