Tesla has updated some of the language around its “Full Self-Driving Beta” program following the NHTSA recall, and some owners are quite disappointed.
If you were to take the pulse of Tesla owners on social media this morning, you would find that many of them are confused or even disappointed.
We are seeing a lot of comments like this one from well-known FSD Beta tester Chuck Cook:
With that said, I am not particularly concerned about what Tesla is saying on this new support page.
Yes, it does make it sound like “FSD Beta” is only intended to be “Level 2,” but that’s the beta. In my view, it doesn’t go against what Tesla has said in the past. Under the beta, Tesla is trying circumvent a lot of complications and regulations that come with anything more than a level 2 driver-assist system, but the goal is to use the program to eventually take it out of beta and become a level 4 or 5 system.
Now whether Tesla can achieve that is a completely different question, and I have my doubts, but I don’t think anything changed here.
I still believe Tesla needs to offer the option to be reimbursed for people who bought the FSD package and still don’t have the beta or are disappointed in the beta since it’s nowhere near what Tesla promised years ago.
I think that will go a long way to create some goodwill as the inevitable lawsuits start to pile up.
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