10-07-2021, 08:23 PM
PeterW wrote:
But Tesla is essentially running a (at best) beta test on public roads. It should err on the side of safety and it seems to in most circumstances but has a problem with emergency vehicles. Perhaps a pause is in order to let them work out a few more bugs before resuming its use on the street.
Out of the approximately 500k Teslas on the road with Autopilot hardware V2, only about 1000 have access to the beta FSD (Full Self Driving). To date, FSD has not been involved in a single accident that I'm aware of. About 2 weeks ago Tesla deployed a driver rating system to owners who have purchased FSD or subscribe to the feature. They can use it to quantitatively grade their driving skill and then Tesla will begin allowing more drivers into the beta program based on the score in the driving rating system. My theory is that they intend to use this to show that FSD is at least as safe as actual drivers with apples-to-apples comparison via the driver rating system.