A couple shot a porn film in a Tesla on Autopilot while there were 'a lot of cars driving by'

May 9, 2019

It was only a matter of time before someone had sex in a self-driving car.

Last week, Taylor Jackson, an adult performer in Los Angeles, and her boyfriend may have been the first to hit this milestone. They uploaded a film to the adult website PornHub that appears to show the couple performing various sex acts in a moving Tesla.

Tesla is careful to point out that its semi-autonomous Autopilot driver-assist system "is intended for use with a fully attentive driver, who has their hands on the wheel and is prepared to take over at any time," so it is not fully driverless. But that didn't stop Jackson from testing its limits.

"Holy s---, I made @Tesla the #1 search on Pornhub," Jackson wrote on her (NSFW) Twitter, tagging Tesla's founder, Elon Musk.

In response, the PornHub Instagram account posted a (somewhat SFW) screenshot of the film with the caption "Reporting you to Elon for not having two hands on the wheel with autopilot enabled."

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Jackson told INSIDER she was fairly new to the adult-entertainment scene when she filmed the video, as she had only just started selling clips on Snapchat and other platforms.

She and her boyfriend were on a road trip when he talked her into having sex in the car while it was on Autopilot, and they decided it was a great opportunity.

"We joked around when we were done and thought that would make a great porno," she said. "We looked it up on PornHub because we thought someone had to have done it, and we couldn't find anything."

Though the film enthralled PornHub users, it hopefully won't inspire any copycat sexual encounters. While Tesla has said that it hopes to improve Autopilot and that accidents are rare, they have happened, and there is a ways to go before drivers can safely take their hands off the wheel.

Jackson said she wasn't afraid of crashing, as she has experience with Autopilot.

"However, I did bump the steering wheel, knocked it out of Autopilot," she said. "It was mainly a straight road, but it had a lot of traffic. We had a lot of cars driving by us."

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Musk recently said Autopilot could be safe enough for passengers to go hands-free "very quickly," perhaps as soon as the end of this year.

"I could be wrong, but it appears to be the case that Tesla is vastly ahead of everyone," he said.

Even so, it's unlikely the company would recommend taking your eyes off the road at all. Especially not long enough to do everything the couple took part in.

But Jackson said that if the opportunity arises again, they might give it another go.

"The feedback has been great so far, and the comments, for the most part, have been amusing," Jackson said. "Looking at it now, I feel we could've made it better. Maybe we will make another one."