Tesla Driver Monitoring

Elon Musk pushed to use Tesla’s internal driver monitoring camera to record video of drivers’ behavior, primarily for Tesla to use this video as evidence to defend itself from investigations in the event of a crash, according to Walter Isaacson’s new biography of the Tesla CEO.

Tesla is finally releasing a driver monitoring system using its cabin-facing camera to ensure drivers are paying attention when using its Autopilot and Full Self-Driving package features.

It’s a feature that the automaker inexplicably has taken its sweet time to release.