Tesla cameras will monitor driver awareness
A new software update for Tesla cars appears to include monitoring of drivers through the car's internal cameras when Autopilot is in use.
Some other car manufacturers have used internal sensors to observe where a driver's eyes are looking. That means the vehicle can slow down or switch off automated driving features if the driver starts looking at their phone, for example.
A new software update for Tesla cars, reported by several media outlets, reveals that the camera above the car's rear-view mirror will start performing a similar function.
But Tesla also said that "camera data does not leave the car itself" and no data is transmitted unless data-sharing is enabled in the car's settings, which can be changed by the user at any time.
But it comes after several recent stories about the company's so-called "Autopilot" and "full self-driving" features, which are more accurately described as driver-assistance features.
