100% this.
If they don't plan to admit us into the beta then say it.
Is there some part of
limited early release beta you find unclear?
They've already TOLD YOU they're not letting
everybody in right in the terms you're shown when you hit the button.
You just keep not wanting to hear it.
Why bother upgrading our cameras if they won't give us FSD Beta?
Multiple reasons.
One, it expands the possible pool of people who could be invited in the future (I already gave examples of why they might not want more people
today in a specific situation, but might want one or more of them
later when they discover a different need for specific data or feedback.
Two, you are again confusing "eligible" with "entitled"--- to be
eligible to be invited into the beta you need a LOT of things. To be in certain geographies. To even own a Tesla at all. To have a certain safety score. And....to have the newer cameras. But
none of those things mean you are
guaranteed or entitled to an invitation. It just means you're in the eligible pool. Where, again, only a
limited number will be picked from. And most likely
not "more people in California" anywhere near the top of said list because they've got plenty of those already.
Three, it's going to take a while to get the upgrades done, between backed up service and backed up parts and more, and you'll need it for the final wide-release product- which is the thing FSD buyers are
actually entitled to.
Agreed.
Simple if they do not need our data just tells us that and we can be happy again. Tell us to turn the Safety score off and get on with life. I am about to do that.
They
are telling you that.
Again, the intent was never to invite everybody. It was to invite enough people to get enough useful data and feedback, in enough places, to improve the development of the software.
So if you "qualify" in all regards to be invited, but haven't been, that's telling you several things:
They don't need YOUR data. (this could change in the future though, I already gave an example of one way it might, there's plenty more though)
They don't want a bunch of unneeded feedback getting in the way of sorting through the feedback they
do need.
They don't want to waste a bunch of effort maintaining a separate "doesn't collect data or feedback" branch to give to "everyone else" that doesn't help them improve the SW at all, but does massively increase the risk of an early development version of software causing an accident.
Now, if you wish to continue to be eligible, and possibly be invited if item 1 changes, then stay in. If you don't- then don't.
As someone who has been in the program a while though, you're gonna feel very silly if you do actually get it (anytime before it gets
vastly better than it is now anyway) and then realize you had hinged any personal happiness on having access to it.
It's pretty neat, but it's also still very rough. It's not
remotely the actual thing sold to early adopters that some folks here seem to imagine it is.
