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by sevensevennine 802 days ago
When I'm using BlueCruise, I can't look at a sign beside the road without beeping warning me to keep my eyes on the road. There are few roads where BlueCruise even remains active for long without reverting to "hands-free" mode, so that if my hands aren't positioned properly on the wheel, or if my hands even rest too passively on the wheel during turns, there's an alarm.

I honestly don't know how people lose track of the road using BlueCruise. Wearing glasses with eyes painted on them, with rubber hands hooked onto the wheel?

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I’ve got the same question because of the eye monitoring. The best I can think of is that they looked away at just the wrong time and it hadn’t quite timed out yet. Which means it was incredibly inopportune.

Or, they actually were looking ahead, but lost in thought or something and not paying attention.

You can’t do the “fall asleep in the front seat” thing that you could in Teslas when Autopilot first came out.

The eye tracking with blue cruise is really strict. It made me realize how much I took my eyes off the road before I had it. Even my 'glances' at the instrument panel often exceeded the warning threshold.