Tesla's Driver Monitoring System Outsmarted by $30 Plastic Heads

The discovery that Tesla's driver monitoring system can be defeated with inexpensive plastic replicas exposes critical vulnerabilities in camera-based safety features designed to prevent distracted driving. As autonomous vehicles increasingly rely on AI-driven safeguards, this incident underscores how easily fundamental safety mechanisms can be circumvented with simple, low-cost physical workarounds, raising serious questions about the reliability of automated driver attention systems.