Drivers mount plastic heads to fool a car's attention monitor

Claim

After Tesla tightened its driver monitoring, some Chinese drivers began mounting tiny celebrity-shaped plastic heads by the mirror to fool the cabin camera into seeing an attentive human.

Reporting date: 2026-06-15 (not necessarily the event date)

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• Welcome to June 15, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)