[AutonomousVehicles] Tesla Opens up Full Self Driving Beta To Customers

[Angela Daniel]

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On Tue, Sep 28, 2021, 5:50 AM Cornelius Butler via AutonomousVehicles <
autonomousvehicles at nfbnet.org> wrote:

> Hi Everyone,
> Tesla has opened its full self driving beta for customers. Article link
> and text is below.
>
> Article Link:
>
> https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/26/22693610/tesla-opens-full-self-driving-beta-software-more-customers
>
> Article Text:
>
> Tesla opens ‘Full Self-Driving’ beta software to more customers
> Customers can now request access, but Tesla will first calculate a
> driver’s safety score
>
> By Kim Lyons at SocialKimLy  Sep 26, 2021, 9:19am EDT
>
>
> Despite the head of the National Transportation Safety Board expressing
> serious concerns about its safety last week, Tesla has now enabled access
> to the beta of its “Full Self-Driving” (FSD) program to more Tesla drivers,
> via a “request” button on Teslas’ dashboard screens. However, before a
> driver gets access to the software, Tesla will determine their “safety
> score,” using five criteria that estimate “the likelihood that your driving
> could result in a future collision,” according to a page on Tesla’s website.
>
> The score is tabulated using data collected by sensors on the driver’s
> Tesla, and considers instances of forward collision warnings per 1,000
> miles, hard braking, aggressive turning, unsafe following, and forced
> Autopilot disengagement. A Tesla’s Autopilot feature disengages after
> giving three visual and audio warnings, “when your Tesla vehicle has
> determined that you have removed your hands from the steering wheel and
> have become inattentive,” according to the safety score guide.
>
> The guide doesn’t indicate what Tesla considers an acceptable safety score
> to access FSD, but says most drivers will have a score of 80 out of a
> possible 100. The FSD beta software does not make a Tesla fully autonomous;
> the driver must keep control of the vehicle at all times.
>
> Tesla is opening access to the FSD beta early a year after it opened a
> limited beta of the software with a select group of customers. It opened up
> a monthly subscription package for FSD in July, at a price of $199 per
> month, or $99 per month for Tesla owners who bought the since-discontinued
> Enhanced Autopilot package. Before that point, the FSD package was sold for
> a one-time fee of $10,000. Tesla owners can cancel their monthly FSD
> subscription at any time, according to the terms on Tesla’s website.
>
> Jennifer Homendy, chair of the National Transportation Safety Board, said
> last week that Tesla should address “basic safety issues” before expanding
> FSD, calling the company’s use of the term full self-driving “misleading
> and irresponsible.” Homendy said Tesla “has clearly misled numerous people
> to misuse and abuse technology.” The NTSB can conduct investigations and
> make recommendations, but has no enforcement authority.
>
> On Saturday, when a popular Tesla blog tweeted an editorial questioning
> whether the company had a “fair chance” after Homendy’s comments, Musk
> replied with a tweet that had a link to the editable version of Homendy’s
> Wikipedia page (which as of this writing has a paragraph titled “Tesla
> criticism” that links to news stories about her recent comments). Musk
> didn’t comment further on Twitter.
>
> A request for comment to Tesla’s media email was not immediately returned
> Sunday morning; the company dissolved its press office and rarely replies
> to media queries. The NTSB also did not reply to a request for comment.
>
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