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veen  ·  3320 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Drivers are being idiots with Teslas new autopilot features

Straight from my thesis:

    It takes at least four seconds for a person to take over the wheel, at least eight seconds before the driver can respond adequately and it takes around thirty seconds before the driver

    has [regained] the same precision as a regular driver.

Yes, it's possible. It is needed, for training purposes. Google takes all the training upon itself, which is extremely expensive as you need to do thousands of miles, all of which monitored by a driver, before you hit a good enough level. Using beta testers makes sense from a technical and business point of view - but it's quite risky from a human factors engineering standpoint.