S4WRXTTCS
Well-Known Member
Tesla needed three different aspects in FSD Beta driversTotally agree. I've been driving super-carefully I admit (but on my usual mix of shopping and work trips) and managed to stay at 99%, but all the "dings" I got were justified by "good" (imho) driving such stopping for yellow lights downhill, and once for an ambulance that did a U turn in front of me.
If Tesla genuinely want decent testers they are better off disqualifying the 100% scores as gaming the system (yeah sure, it will outrage many people, but they have already done that anyway).
Diversity in location
People adept at interpreting when its screwing up, and reporting bugs/issues
Safe Drivers who take over quickly.
I think they could have taken a better approach by adding mechanism to report issues within the existing SW. Then they could have released a limited version of FSD Beta where it didn't do a lot of the dangerous stuff, but where it was all unified (same vision stack used on the freeway as the city).
This way TONS of people could use the reporting to report issues with routing, and other things that will clearly mess up FSD Beta before that element is even turned on. In addition to this it would gave given customers improvements in visualizations, and NoA.
Then they could have used those three aspects to pick people. The approach I would have taken would have been really geo-specific (I'm a strong advocate of good mapping). Like 1000 people in the Portland area or something like that. Where they gather a bunch of data, and they might even turn off the Beta for those people before moving to another area with another 1000 people. Maybe even have a Calendar where local groups could organize events so non-FSD beta people could get a glimpse.
It's an early beta so part of whole opt-in should be an acknowledgement that it might come and go. It should also come with a Quiz to demonstrate that the owner understands all the liability. Nio added this for their L2 system after a recent fatality.
For safety I wouldn't have reported what I used as the mechanism, but it would have been pretty liberal where the only goal was to weed out the terrible. I certainly wouldn't have released a Safety Score system that didn't have situational awareness. The Safety Score does have a long term purpose of insuring a vehicle capable of both L2 and L4 driving. I think that's a big component of the long term plan of Tesla insurance.