It’s rush hour on the Southern State Parkway and you look over to your right to see the driver next to you isn’t actually driving the car. Just like Jacob Kraniak – whose hands weren’t touching the steering wheel and his feet weren’t on the pedals. Instead, eight cameras and an onboard computer accelerate, brake and turn his 2023 Tesla Model Y along a stretch of highway known as Blood Alley. Today, besides driverless cars, new features are emerging that can detect alcohol in a car’s air, or use GPS to limit a vehicle’s top speed based on the zone it is in. “Cameras and the computers will never get tired. They’ll never get distracted. They’re never going to get drunk at the wheel,” Kraniak said. During a roughly 50-minute drive with Newsday, his “Full Self Driving (Supervised)” mode handled some tricky situations successfully as he kept his hands inches from the steering wheel while an internal camera monitored his eye movement, making sure he was paying attention. But the vehicle ...