Tesla Testers

[TomLewis3]

So… I have a disease, Teslitis, that keeps me awake for a few hours every night. Originally, it was obsessing about which model to purchase and with which features to include. I assumed that once I purchased the car my disease would dissipate. However, after taking delivery of my Model 3 I am even more obsessed and spend even more time reading, watching videos, and obsessing over everything Tesla. In order to continue to feed my disease I need to find out how to become a Tesla tester in order to try out the beta versions of things like enhanced Summon, etc. Does anyone have a hunch on how this might be possible? Just consider that you’d be saving a man from a debilitating sickness!

 

[killua]

contact a very good head doctor.

 

[qdeathstar]

Tell Elon you know a guy with coke...

 

[cucubits]

The general idea is good. I'm sure there would be a lot of Tesla owners who would gladly beta test features before mass release. Maybe something like this will be a thing in the future but for now I believe they do this in-house only.

 

[OCR1]

Don’t worry, it will pass.

 

[Fernand]

Buy a couple shares of TSLA stock. This will spread the illness
over a broader spectrum and might grant you more semblance
of normalcy among acquaintances. You can seem rational opining
about NASDAQ spreads, and not just whether Advanced Summon
2019.30.5.2 will actually find your dog in a parking lot.

 

[TomLewis3]

I thought trying to get an Alumni favor from Elon might do the trick... but that worked about as well as getting an alumni discount on the car

 

[ewoodrick]

get behind the 100,000 person line

 

[TEG]

I thought we were all beta testers for Tesla...

 

[Daniel in SD]

This is a curious ailment.
Other autonomous vehicle companies have to pay test drivers yet there seem to be a large number of owners who are willing to pay Tesla to do the same thing!

 

[Fernand]

It's because it's more interesting.

 

[Daniel in SD]

It's because it's more interesting.

That's definitely a problem that Waymo and Cruise have been fighting. As the software gets better and better it gets harder to get their test drivers to pay attention (Cruise now has two test drivers per vehicle).
I'm guessing Tesla's initial release of FSD will be very "interesting."

 

[Fernand]

I believe it's a misconception to think of some future
"initial release of FSD". It's a gradually improving process,
and with EAP we're part of it. That's why it's so interesting.

 

[nicholb]

In order to continue to feed my disease I need to find out how to become a Tesla tester in order to try out the beta versions of things like enhanced Summon, etc. Does anyone have a hunch on how this might be possible? Just consider that you’d be saving a man from a debilitating sickness!

No known way to get on the Early Access program. It is by invitation only. About the best you can do is go into the software setting on the car and select "Advanced" in the update preference. That will at least move you to the front of releases. Who knows, Tesla may decide to use that setting as a criteria when they decide to send out the next round of Early Access invites.

 

[Daniel in SD]

I believe it's a misconception to think of some future
"initial release of FSD". It's a gradually improving process,
and with EAP we're part of it. That's why it's so interesting.

I was referring to the "automatic driving on city streets" feature. If it drives thousands of miles without intervention then it won't really be very interesting at all.

 

[Silicon Desert]

In order to continue to feed my disease I need to find out how to become a Tesla tester in order to try out the beta versions of things like enhanced Summon, etc. Does anyone have a hunch on how this might be possible? Just consider that you’d be saving a man from a debilitating sickness!

You are already a beta tester. You just don't know it