Tesla classifies pretty much everything as being "in beta", including the wipers. When is any of it likely to be out of beta? Who knows, potentially never.
As it stands Tesla essentially say that they don't stand behind these features and that any errant behaviour and consequences that follow - if you're unable to prevent it - are entirely the owner's problem. Autopark grinding your alloys along the kerb? Sorry, it's beta. Autopilot gives up mid corner and drives off the road because the steering angle has been exceeded? Beta.
What you can say for Tesla is that unlike other manufacturers they let owners use these autonomous features, however buggy or imcomplete they might be, wherever they want, which is in my opinion both a blessing and a curse. My previous car, an i3, only had "traffic jam assist" (or something like that) that would only work on motorways, at less than 30mph. It used to irritate me that it was so limited, so you can imagine test driving a Tesla how happy I was that I could use it wherever I wanted. The downside, I think, is that Autopilot has the potential to be a lot more dangerous than people realise it is. I remember seeing posts from people who have had accidents because they've used it in situations where it's not qualified for
at all.
Other manufacturers seem to err much more on the side of caution, and deploy systems with limited functionality that they stand behind. I might be wrong but I don't think any of them sell these systems in a "beta" format and tell customers that basically anything can happen and it's their fault if it does.
All of that is to that say Autopilot is pretty cool, but it is severely limited. The car won't drive around any corner that is too sharp, warning you that it is going to give up and then doing so (which in my opinion is crazy, but there you go). Other features can and have caused accidents when used, e.g. Autopark grinding alloys on kerbs or hitting parked cars. Other autonomous aspects seem to have lagged massively behind the competition, which you definitely can't blame UNECE for. The Kia EV6, possibly others,
has impressive remote self parking and summon,
as does the Ioniq, both of which work a lot better than Tesla's Summon does - which can't do remote self parking at all, and in the videos linked above the operators are a fair distance from the car, well beyond the range Summon would stop working completely.
Tesla is very impressive at
selling their autonomous stuff, and in the States with FSD beta it's fair to say that I'd probably be happier with it than I am, but in Europe it is very weak and Tesla just aren't interested in development over here. I don't see why I should pay full price for a product that has unfinished features, so I most likely won't when it comes to buying my next car unless there is a dramatic change of attitude.
