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What?  I don’t understand your distinction?
For everyone who didn't bother to read the article, the driver used some tricks to fool the car into thinking he was still attentive.  He knew what he was doing and they are filing charges against him. >

Which means the cars’ need better mechanisms in place to prevent this. Tesla is still beta testing dangerous products on public roads. >

Those cheat devices don't work anymore. Newer teslas also track your eyeballs and will lock you out of autopilot if your texting or not watching the road. >

All the more reason to not buy a goddamn tesla.  That can only go so well. >

Are you upset that you have to watch the road? >

Real question because I genuinely do not know. People have mentioned that even simple things such as turning on windshield wipers entails navigating multiple menus on a touch screen that has no captive feedback, effectively forcing you to take your eyes off the road. Will the tesla start trying to pull off to the side if you are taking too long? Does it start beeping/audibly warning you before so (which isn't usually helpful in that situation, but still)? >

The wipers are automatic.  They come on as needed.  If you want to override it, you can do that in the menus.  You can also use voice control (after pushing a button on the steering wheel) to override the wiper setting.  So it's no big deal.  The real gripe is that the automatic feature uses the camera(s) to detect rain, not a dedicated sensor and in some conditions it doesn't work well (putting the wipers on too fast, or when not needed).   
A Tesla will never pull off to the side on you.  If you stop paying attention, it will gently notify you, then beep at you, and eventually if you keep breaking the rules, it will disable automatic features on you until your next trip. >


The real gripe is that the automatic feature uses the camera(s) to detect rain, not a dedicated sensor

So it's not actually no big deal. If it doesn't work flawlessly, then any obstruction to manual operation is bad.
It's not like a windshield wiper stick is complicated, or cumbersome. Or what about times when there no rain, but you need to clean the windshield? Does it sense then? Or does it sense to my preferences? >

To wash the windshield you press the end of the turn signal stalk. The auto wipers feature is awful in my experience. It doesn’t sense spray from cars in front of you or light rain, it only works in hard rain.
I rented a Model Y in Colorado for a work trip a couple of weeks ago and did over 900 miles in it. They needlessly over complicated a lot of really basic functions that we have come to take for granted. They created new problems by solving problems that didn’t exist in the first place >

That's interesting, on my M3LR I got an update that fixed/changed the windshield wipers and they work flawlessly now. 
About the same time they fixed the auto high beams. Before I'd flash everyone a few times before they would turn off. Now it works perfectly. >

Nothing is idiot proof >

They build better technology, we build even better idiots. >

I had a boss that used to say " You can out think stupid, but they just build a better idiot" 
Rang true when he said it and still chimes today. >

easily over half the time it takes to implement a new feature in a software application you spend on preventing the user from doing something rather than actually implementing the new functionality >

The good: Car didn’t crash and burn
The bad: Car didn’t pull over for the cops
The ugly: The driver was capable of convincing the system he was awake, and then went for a nap. >

The car didn't pull over because the driver is supposed to still be attentive and paying attention you're not allowed to just go to sleep >

"Full self driving" >

Regardless of the name it's not like you just jump in the car and do it you need to agree to those terms of service before you actually operate the vehicle with this full self driving >

People always read terms of services cause they aren't super long and worded in legal speak. >

Really bad title given the driver did not fall asleep but went to sleep while driving…