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US minister calls for videos with Apple glasses behind the wheel
The Apple Vision Pro has recently been on the market. photo
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Videos of people driving with Apple glasses and not having their hands on the steering wheel are currently appearing online. Now the US Secretary of Transportation is warning.
The US Department of Transportation has responded with an urgent warning to video recordings of Tesla drivers wearing one of the new computer glasses Apple is behind the wheel.
“Reminder: ALL advanced driver assistance systems available today require that the driver maintain control at all times,” wrote Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg on the online platform X (formerly Twitter).
In the past few days, several videos have appeared online of people driving with Apple glasses and without their hands on the steering wheel. The Apple Vision Pro has only been on the market since Friday. The headset has cameras that can capture the environment and transmit it to displays in front of your eyes. Apple emphasizes in its usage rules that you are not allowed to drive a vehicle with the glasses.
The “Autopilot” driving assistance system in Tesla electric cars can, among other things, maintain speed, lane and distance from the vehicle in front. Tesla itself emphasizes that the system does not turn the cars into self-driving cars. However, there were always cases in which drivers relied too much on the technology.