The design of the car heavily influences driver behavior, so you can’t hand-wave away with “Tesla drivers are idiots”. A major issue is that the FSD, sensors, cameras, etc. all give a false sense of security, leading to drivers engaging in more risky behavior. The term for this is Risk Compensation.
The design of the car heavily influences driver behavior
One part of the design is the “one touchscreen for everything” - which causes accidents by needless distraction for basic tasks. Our last car also fell victim to this - totaled after a Tesla driver crashed into its side due to doing stuff on the screen instead of looking to the road. I don’t quite understand how those things are still considered road legal in the EU, and still hope we’ll eventually get rules prohibiting this kind of UI, and forcing retrofit of existing cars or banning them from driving.
The design of the car heavily influences driver behavior, so you can’t hand-wave away with “Tesla drivers are idiots”. A major issue is that the FSD, sensors, cameras, etc. all give a false sense of security, leading to drivers engaging in more risky behavior. The term for this is Risk Compensation.
One part of the design is the “one touchscreen for everything” - which causes accidents by needless distraction for basic tasks. Our last car also fell victim to this - totaled after a Tesla driver crashed into its side due to doing stuff on the screen instead of looking to the road. I don’t quite understand how those things are still considered road legal in the EU, and still hope we’ll eventually get rules prohibiting this kind of UI, and forcing retrofit of existing cars or banning them from driving.
There aren’t sensors anymore, just cameras so it’s actually worse than it was a decade ago