A Tesla can drive, steer and even park itself… however can it play guitar? Sadly, no – automotive producers haven’t crafted a musically proficient automobile simply but. However don’t be disheartened! That simply implies that it’s all the way down to us people to select up the slack. In case your automotive is doing all of the driving, why sit idly, twiddling your thumbs, when you can be placing them to good use working in your chord progressions?

For authorized causes, we don’t truly condone doing that. In actual fact, one London driver has gotten in hassle with the legislation after allegedly enjoying guitar whereas zooming down the M25 at 60mph. We will solely assume which monitor he was allegedly enjoying in that second – maybe a foreshadowing Smoke On The Water earlier than being plunged into scorching water? Or Sammy Hagar’s ode to reckless driving, I Can’t Drive 55?

Surrey Police shamed the driving force for his impromptu automotive set on Instagram. In accordance with the Surrey Police, they obtained a name from a member of the general public claiming to have seen a Tesla driver “enjoying a guitar while driving on the M25 at 60mph within the Reigate space”.

You might be questioning how that is attainable – nicely, even futuristic automobiles have their limitations. Particularly, a Tesla automotive will solely have interaction its autopilot capabilities if it detects a driver throughout the automotive. To be able to detect a driver, a collection of cameras, sensors and weight-monitoring capabilities are in place… they usually’re dangerously easy to bypass.

Again in June, it emerged that Tesla ‘drivers’ had been shopping for tiny doll heads to trick their automobiles. Whereas a number of iterations appeared available on the market, the core concept was to line up the doll head so it seemed like the driving force’s precise head – then the automotive believed that the proprietor was wanting up on the street, and would proceed self-driving.

However how did this Surrey Tesla driver bypass his automotive’s sensors? As soon as the driving force was intercepted, the police searched his automotive and found that he had coated the rearview mirror digicam, in addition to placing a weight on his steering wheel. “He had coated the inside digicam which checks driver consideration and he had used a weighted system within the steering wheel to make the automotive assume the driving force was holding the wheel,” the submit explains.

In accordance with the police, the driving force has been reported to court docket for his driving, citing it as an act of “driving with out due care or consideration”. His licensing authority has reportedly additionally been made conscious of the case, as he apparently works as a “personal rent driver”. Now, driver really can’t drive 55… or, doubtlessly, ever once more.