{"id":45456,"date":"2026-06-20T19:13:51","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T23:13:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=45456"},"modified":"2026-06-20T19:19:36","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T23:19:36","slug":"chinese-drivers-are-using-tiny-plastic-heads-to-fool-teslas-autopilot-safeguards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=45456","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Drivers Are Using Tiny Plastic Heads to Fool Tesla\u2019s Autopilot Safeguards"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/chinese-drivers-are-using-tiny-plastic-heads-to-fool-teslas-autopilot-safeguards\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Made-In-China-Chinese-Drivers-Using-Tiny-Plastic-Heads-to-Fool-Tesla-Full-Self-Driving-Business.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:187px;height:auto\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>A cottage industry of celebrity figurines, blinking screens, and other DIY gadgets is helping drivers bypass Tesla&#8217;s distracted-driving controls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/chinese-drivers-are-using-tiny-plastic-heads-to-fool-teslas-autopilot-safeguards\/\">Chinese Drivers Are Using Tiny Plastic Heads to Fool Tesla\u2019s Autopilot Safeguards<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>jfc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Tesla drivers in other markets, including the US, have long searched for ways to get around their car\u2019s safety controls. People have tried everything from&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/TeslaLounge\/comments\/1pdx767\/is_there_any_way_to_disable_attention_monitoring\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wearing sunglasses<\/a>&nbsp;to make it harder for the camera to track the eyeballs to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/story\/tesla-urging-drowsy-drivers-to-use-full-self-driving-that-could-go-very-wrong\/\">installing weights<\/a>&nbsp;on their steering wheel to trick the system into thinking they are still holding on. On Reddit, some users even claimed to have sought&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/TeslaLounge\/comments\/1l431jf\/about_to_buy_my_first_tesla_help_me_avoid_eye\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">out slightly older car models<\/a>&nbsp;that have less capable cameras and sensors.<br>&#8230;<br>Not everyone is enthusiastic about these gadgets, and many people on Chinese social media have criticized their use. In the comments under promotional videos, people often <strong><em>compare them to clips that allow drivers to avoid putting on a seatbelt while driving. Both product categories put drivers at risk in exchange for convenience.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>jfc wired, both of these shortcuts increase the risk for the drive. only one of them increases the risk to the rest of us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A cottage industry of celebrity figurines, blinking screens, and other DIY gadgets&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[70,124,123],"class_list":["post-45456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-hacking","tag-self-driving-cars","tag-tesla","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45456"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45465,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45456\/revisions\/45465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}