MIT Study Will Pay Tesla Drivers $1000 To Be Monitored While Driving
Originally published on TeslaMondo.
“A car that’s driving itself needs to know when the driver is able to take control back.” And so MIT will pay about $1k to Tesla owners who are willing to have their cars equipped with a bunch of cameras that monitor not the road, but the driver. They even detect your gaze direction. This layer of internal data is stacked with the car’s external data to form a complete synergistic sandwich and ultimately refine autonomous tech.
So here’s how a Tesla driver can make some beer money:
$1,000 from Tesla for customer referrals.
$1,000 from MIT for study participation.
$200 for referring others to the MIT study.
TeslaMondo thinks MIT will soon move this study to another locale. Attempting to monitor driver attentiveness in the Boston area will result in an error message: “Data not found.”
Reprinted with permission.
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I wish the government will also pay us for monitoring us!
Hah 🙂 Why pay when you can do it for free?
Why should we pay ourselves for collecting info on ourselves?
Allow myself, to introduce … myself.
You’re a gentleman of wealth and taste?
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Actually –
https://strathdee.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/charliewatts3.jpg
Is that a photo from the wax museum?
Nope, it’s four British kids who have lived a life bigger than life.
Bunch of 70 year olds who still kick butt while many people younger than them are getting around in Medicare scooters.
Well, Ronnie is only 69. But he did just father twins, so that will age him up a bit….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBecM3CQVD8
I’m signed up 😀 We’ll see if they are interested in a non-autopilot equipped Model S in California 🙂
They say on their website they’re only interested in Autopilot-capable cars, which is why I didn’t sign up.
Having been a driver and a bicyclist in Boston for a decade I take issue with the quip about ‘driver attentiveness’ – you can’t be on those roads and not concentrate (politeness is another matter).