Traditional media creating so much buzz to slow down and make tesla look bad. I can see every bad news about tesla re-printed everywhere. 1 car got on fire boom... every car outlet re prints. BMW recalled 1M+ cars because of fire risk and some of them still catching on fire on the road while driving on a highway, no one even heard of it.
Regarding the article. Author probably never tried to drive FSD. If driver doesn't look on a road for few seconds few time it will ban you from this feature. They use camera, sensors of steering wheel etc... It is very aggressively RESTRICTED , locked LEVEL 2 system. It's only available for few thousands of people. Regular autopliot works only on highways and very limited.
FSD name is clearly aspirational. Once they will have a confidence they will switch from level 2 to 3 etc.. By removing/easing restrictions. Only AFTER THAT it will become eligible to a different regulations.
The only debate here could be how aggressive you are about this level 2 restrictions while building LEVEL 5 system.
I am part of this Beta program. My personal feeling after using this system: you pay attention more compares to regular driving. It tuned this way it will rather do a false positive distraction decision.
And yeah, current version is so far away from LEVEL 4 or 5. And it's not usable for every day. The only use of it try, test, provide feedback, turn off , and use the car in a traditional way. There is 0 amount of people who is using this feature not for testings purposes.