There would be an adversarial neural network on the other end trying to fool the former into falsely detecting attention, i'm not sure this would end well. In the end they might have ended up with a perfectly distracted driver that shows no visible signs of inattentiveness in the interior video.
But I fully agree with the general idea: if Uber had quickly conjured up one of their glossy presentations outlining an impressive arsenal of countermeasures against safety driver inattentiveness, they would be in a much better position now. They didn't though, and everybody (including myself) is assuming that Uber just did not care: if a safety driver fails at their impossible job, it's their responsibility, not Uber's. Turns out it might still be Uber's problem though.
But I fully agree with the general idea: if Uber had quickly conjured up one of their glossy presentations outlining an impressive arsenal of countermeasures against safety driver inattentiveness, they would be in a much better position now. They didn't though, and everybody (including myself) is assuming that Uber just did not care: if a safety driver fails at their impossible job, it's their responsibility, not Uber's. Turns out it might still be Uber's problem though.