Overview
- A passenger-posted video circulating online shows an Uber driver appearing to sleep as a Tesla using its Full Self-Driving features drove on a Bay Area highway and took an exit without reported incident.
- The passenger who posted the clip on X said the driver slept through most of a roughly 20-minute trip and that the car handled lane keeping, speed and the exit.
- Tesla reiterated that current FSD and autopilot features require active human supervision and do not make the vehicle autonomous, placing legal responsibility for safe operation on the driver.
- The California Highway Patrol warned that sleeping at the wheel violates state law even with driver-assist technology, and there are no reported crashes or enforcement actions tied to this specific clip in current coverage.
- Viewers split between praising the system’s performance and condemning driver negligence, and observers questioned why Tesla’s driver-monitoring prompts did not appear to interrupt or alert the sleeping driver.