[1337shadow]

Ok, I can't imagine myself dropping attention from driving. As a member of a national roadkill prevention awareness org and having lost close friends on the road: I would never had imagined that it would require you to drop attention.

I imagined it was something you could enable and then disable by just breaking like cruise control or auto parking with toyotas.

But now I see how complex it becomes because of the wheel, even tesla owners in the comments of the article don't like to let their hands off the wheel.

[sibartlett]

The more automated cars become, the more drivers will start to trust them and pay less attention - especially when it’s advertised as full self driving.

Prime example would be the Uber test driver who felt she could trust the car enough to watch a TV show on her phone, when she was supposed to be supervising it.

Plus our attention naturally just starts to wander when the talk at hand is not that engaging.

[rightbyte]

My understanding was that she was looking on a dashboard screen slightly before crashing into the bicyclist, not a cellphone?