Tesla will open FSD beta software to owners with a good driving record

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The truly safe drivers will wait until a dozen or so of the 'safe drivers' have their first accidents. I wonder what level of candor we can expect from Tesla in terms of a) interventions and b) accident reports?

I for one, would like to see more transparency in this process before I attempt to use FSD.

This rollout plan sounds like a strategy to collect training data for future FSD enhancements.

They could roll it out to everyone and just select/boost the data from the safe drivers.

Smells more like they know this release is risky and want to minimize the PR risk.

Maybe although I don't know how they would identify the "safe" drivers among the folks that are just mindful during the evaluation period. Perhaps they weed people out who seem to drive routes their system doesn't handle well. Still, it seems like the rollout plan would be a good way to collect a training set that is biased toward safer driving habits.

Also, this sort of short evaluation seems like it wouldn't mitigate that much PR risk. It may even increase bad press if things go poorly and people point to it as an indication that they knew it wasn't ready.

This is such a bad idea. They obviously have plenty of simple situations to work on already

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