The study's authors emphasize that its conclusions cannot be extended to all Tesla Autopilot users or to other semi-autonomous systems.
Read more:Human Side of Tesla Autopilot: Exploration of Functional Vigilance in Real-World Human-Machine Collaboration
If the driver took more than one second to react to the potentially dangerous situation, the researchers designated the response as being late. Drivers responded late in none of the 8,729 instances in which Autopilot was deactivated before a potentially dangerous situation, a result that surprised the study's authors.
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