U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg on Monday said drivers must pay attention at all times after videos emerged of people in Teslas wearing Apple Vision Pro spatial computing goggles.
Reuters:
Buttigieg responded on X to a video that had more than 24 million views of a Tesla driver who appeared to be gesturing with his hands to manipulate a virtual reality field.
“Reminder—ALL advanced driver assistance systems available today require the human driver to be in control and fully engaged in the driving task at all times,” Buttigieg said.
Reminder—ALL advanced driver assistance systems available today require the human driver to be in control and fully engaged in the driving task at all times. https://t.co/OpPy36mOgC
— Secretary Pete Buttigieg (@SecretaryPete) February 5, 2024
This man was arrested for using Apple Vision Pro while driving a Tesla. pic.twitter.com/vHt8VQmQc8
— humans without context (@HumansNoContext) February 3, 2024
Using the Apple Vision Pro while driving a car pic.twitter.com/DQIFKQKUz9
— Francis Chen (@fncischen) February 5, 2024
When I thought of the future as a child, this is definitely what I saw 🤣 Is this the first Vision Pro with a Cyber Truck?
(No, I am not driving while wearing it. Do not drive while wearing Vision Pro. You can use travel mode AS A PASSENGER ONLY. Don't be stupid. ) pic.twitter.com/N701HFb6tn
— iJustine (@ijustine) January 31, 2024
MacDailyNews Take: Driving While Stupid. If only we could let Darwin’s Law play out in these cases without innocent bystanders getting hurt. Imagine the myriad benefits to the human gene pool; IQ chlorination.
Never use Apple Vision Pro while operating a moving vehicle, bicycle, heavy machinery, or in any other situations requiring attention to safety. – Apple Vision Pro User Guide Safety Information
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“Never use Apple Vision Pro while operating a moving vehicle, bicycle, heavy machinery, or in any other situations requiring attention to safety. ”
Isn’t the point of AR use at work so you can be assisted by it even while driving forklifts and possibly heavy construction equipment in addition to use while not on any moving ‘vehicle’? Maybe in those cases the Vision Pro needs a lock similar to screen rotation lock to prevent entering VR mode so it’ll be forced into always passthrough with floating overlays.
No, because as soon as you lose power for any reason you stop seeing what’s in front of you, you’re blind. Fighter pilots have HUD features built into their helmets but they can still see through them. Maybe they’ll come up with a “passive passthrough” version eventually but relying on a device to see for you adds a thick layer of potential failure and disaster for a comparatively small benefit with AR.
I get your point. Maybe the AVP needs to be defined with a new term, say ‘SR’ for simulated reality or ‘VR+’ which would be defined as augmentation on passthrough imaging of the real world to differentiate it from true AR which overlays on an actual view of the real world. TBH for a person wearing it, unless they take the AVP off they can’t really assume what they’re seeing in passthrough mode is actually what is around them.
Nobody with a brain cares what Pete Buttiplug has to say about anything even if he is right.
I bet every one is a dementia Joe voter, When it comes to libturds, no stupidy is beyond them
why north americans do this? Why they behave like that? Just vey hard to understand what is going on in their brains