Tesla to launch Full Self Driving beta to select drivers next week
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Limited beta testing = a few Tesla employees or trusted friends
It's not what most people would call a 'launch'. Most companies do this.. everyone who gets it will be under an ironclad NDA.
It's not what most people would call a 'launch'. Most companies do this.. everyone who gets it will be under an ironclad NDA.
VanillaAir_UK
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Hopefully they will be able to reveal a few experiences fairly soon
It’s pretty cringe reading the replies to that tweet. People offering up their first born to get on the beta, pausing at the altar of Musk, etc.
Ideally you'd want some testers located in other countries/areas not just the US, esp where regulations and traffic rules are radically different. What works in the US, could be lethal if it behaved the same way in the UK, Europe or China.
The EU/UN regulations will put a lot more restrictions on this new FSD, E.g maximum steering angle or distance summon will work so a test of such things would I think be essential.
I suppose it depends on how many iterations of the testing tesla will undergo. But at some point they are going have to do it.
pdk42
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Well let's hope it's a big improvement on what we have now since the chauffeur's wages are ruining me!
Elon is going to give the first FSD upgrades to skillful, careful drivers. My wife assures me that I'm not in either the careful or the skillful driver category. I guess I'll have to wait for a wider release.
I was wondering the same thing. FSD on a narrow, UK country lane - not going to happen for a very long time.
goRt
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Autopilot now is in permanent beta, and no doubt when the the new software goes out to general release that will also be in permanent beta. At least it provides an excuse when it doesn’t work properly.
I think the penny is beginning to drop even with Tesla’s most ardent fans that FSD is still years away, whatever Elon might say. I’m surprised anyone still gives him any credibility when he makes his pie in the sky predictions. In February 2019 he said:
“I think we will be feature complete, full self-driving, this year. Meaning the car will be able to find you in a parking lot, pick you up and take you all the way to your destination without an intervention. This year. I would say I am of certain of that, that is not a question mark.”
That, obviously, was pure BS. Lots of people are pinning their hopes on this software rewrite, but with Elon’s history I for one am not holding my breath.
So many armchair cynics... What a great British passtime to ctitisise someone who is doing something from the comfoort of your computer chair.
Not here to defend Elon, but how does "a beta of full FSD rerwrite to be released" so we can see new functionality be turned from exciting to "wake me up when it can pick me up from Heathrow" and "Elon musk is full of BS" thread?
I get that it can be fun to be so negative, but give it a rest already, 2020 has enough negativity without turning positive news into negative news.
Not here to defend Elon, but how does "a beta of full FSD rerwrite to be released" so we can see new functionality be turned from exciting to "wake me up when it can pick me up from Heathrow" and "Elon musk is full of BS" thread?
I get that it can be fun to be so negative, but give it a rest already, 2020 has enough negativity without turning positive news into negative news.
It's negativity bourne of experience of the current iteration of FSD and how many problems it has though. Its not baseless
I don't think it's too far fetched to assume that FSD will work by the end of the year/early next for early beta testers in some areas of America (regulations pending). Over here, and in most of europe is a different matter, many main roads and those between houses were built to allow a horse to get down not a car, so they've been adapted to allow cars. So there's a lot of good roads, and a LOT of roads way too narrow, with no road markings and multiple obstacles and potholes. While Elon says the best way for FSD is to not have pre planned maps of how to drive and to just learn to drive properly, there's a lot of places in the UK where even a competent driver would be confused as to how to navigate, so it would need to form of assistance and have learned data specific to that road. Not really an issue to do but it'll just be further down the line....
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