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At least you even have the beta. I bought it back when it was 8K, and I'm unable to qualify for FSD because I live at the top of a hill with a tight twisty road, and no mattter how slowly I drive (slowly enough that people behind me get annoyed), the "safety score" considers that unsafe driving and I get dinged. No FSD for me.

If I could refund it, I would, since there seems to be no way for me to get it.

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Seems like you need to lend the car to a friend who lives in the flatlands who can get the score up for you.

But really there's no need. Any modern Toyota has most of these same features but doesn't try to pass them off as "self driving". Adaptive cruise, lane keeping, blindspot checking. Makes freeway driving a breeze.

All the features you mentioned are part of regular (included) Autopilot, not Enhanced, or FSD.

Toyota has nothing like FSD, Enhanced Autopilot and it's version of Autopilot is closer to Tesla's passive lane-assist technology. Nothing like the rail-like feeling of Tesla Autopilot

Honestly the only reason I was so early in the beta is that I used to do a lot of freeway driving for work. Miles on autopilot counted as a perfect score, so I'd just try to leave autopilot on the whole time.

Not that it really matters since it's really not worth it but in the most recent <whatever> thing musk had he mentioned that anybody will be able to request fsd by the end of the year. Not sure if that means you need a safety score or not.

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