The US Department of Transportation urged owners of the Apple Vision Pro mixed reality headset not to use the device while driving, even if the vehicle is equipped with a semi-autonomous driving system. 24 Channels. The warning concerns the obvious danger this app may pose to users themselves and others.

US Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg issued a warning to drivers on social media page X, saying that all modern vehicles require the driver to pay close attention to the road “at all times.”

The official decided to make such a statement after videos of drivers using Apple Vision Pro while driving began to appear on the internet. The minister published one of these videos on his page on the social network.

Let me remind you: all modern driver assistance systems available today require a human driver to constantly keep the situation under control and be fully involved in driving the car.
Buttic wrote.

One of the videos shows how the driver of a Tesla electric car was stopped by the police for using an Apple Vision Pro while driving. The driver later said the video was a “joke” he made with the help of his friends.

A driver in an Apple Vision Pro was stopped by the police: watch video

He also added that he used the headset for “30-40 seconds” while driving. Apple Vision Pro is equipped with transparency technology. In other words, it allows you to see the surrounding physical space and place digital interactive elements on it, which will certainly distract the driver.

But this, of course, does not stop users, and videos of people using the headset in conditions that can hardly be called a “controlled environment” are already circulating on the Internet. On the same YouTube platform, many videos have already been published in which Vision Pro owners ride on a skateboard with the headset, navigate crowded streets and intersections, use the headset in the subway and other places. It looks strange from the outside, but this is the future that has already arrived.