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> they will take responsibility for the car when in autopilot

This probably just means autopilot gets disengaged just before impact

[Vespasian]

This also includes a 10 second takeover window (in accordance with EU regulations)

[ffhhj]

Can a driver wake up, be calm, get spatial understanding, do bayesian physics predictions and decide the corrective maneuver in 10 seconds?

[criddell]

That's plenty of time. Find a clock and watch the second hand move for ten seconds. It's a long time.

[ghaff]

Especially if I am actually asleep, I can barely speak coherently on the telephone within 10 seconds much less take care of situation with a vehicle that a computer has thrown up its virtual hands about dealing with.

[FinnKuhn]

Level 3 autonomous driving isn't made with the use case of sleeping but with you being able to do other things while still awake (for example use your phone or watch a movie). For those situations 10s is more than enough time to react.

[ghaff]

If you're not paying attention, you can easily end up dozing off. You're either more or less paying attention--and yes drivers' attentions can drift a bit--or you're going to take some time to reacquire some awareness of what exactly is going on.