Throughout Tesla’s Q1 2022 earnings name, Elon Musk was requested to share information that present progress with Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (FSD) Beta program. As a substitute of sharing this information, nevertheless, the CEO urged that individuals desirous to assess the progress of Tesla FSD ought to simply “be a part of the Beta,” which requires shopping for the controversial $12,000 bundle.
A rising variety of individuals have been calling for Tesla to begin releasing information that assist monitor the progress of the Full Self-Driving Beta program because the automaker retains lacking timelines for delivering on its lengthy promise that every one its autos constructed since 2016 will be capable to obtain self-driving functionality by way of software program updates.
They’re simply asking for Tesla to share related information as different corporations growing self-driving know-how, just like the variety of interventions or disengagement per mile, which might assist monitor progress with the system.
With out the info, everybody has to depend on anecdotal proof of how the system performs based mostly on particular person experiences from individuals within the FSD Beta.
In the course of the convention name following the discharge of Tesla’s Q1 2022 monetary outcomes, Musk was instantly requested to launch extra information about Tesla FSD:
Elon has traditionally supplied FSD timelines with not optimum accuracy. We love the optimism for 2022 launch, however is there any information Tesla can share with traders to assist them make their very own conclusions on progress being made, interventions per mile pushed or another information?
The CEO declined to share something particular and as an alternative urged that individuals simply attempt FSD Beta:
One of the simplest ways to achieve your individual evaluation is to affix the Tesla Full Self-Driving beta program the place we’ve over 100,000 individuals proper now enrolled in that program and we anticipate to broaden that considerably this yr. In order that’s my advice, be a part of the Full Self-Driving beta program and expertise it for your self and be aware of the speed of enchancment with each launch. And we put out a brand new launch roughly each two weeks. So — and also you’ll see a bit little bit of two steps ahead one step again, however general the speed of enchancment is extremely fast. So, that’s my advice for reaching your individual evaluation is actually attempt it.
That’s a stunning response contemplating the difficulties to get into this system. You have to purchase the Tesla FSD, which prices $12,000 or $200 per 30 days, after which it is advisable to rating excessive sufficient on Tesla’s driver security rating for Tesla to push you the FSD Beta replace, and even then, not each proprietor is getting it.
Electrek’s Take
As somebody who has been calling for Tesla to launch information concerning the FSD program for a very long time, I used to be pleased to see traders pushing the query and pleasantly stunned that Tesla took the query.
Nonetheless, I used to be shocked by Musk’s response.
Not solely did he not present any willingness to share information, however he additionally had the audacity to say “be a part of this system and plot the progress your self” as an alternative.
It’s as if he can’t even comprehend that individuals would have doubts about this system to the purpose that they wouldn’t be prepared to pay $12,000 to attempt it with out seeing some concrete information exhibiting progress.
At this level, it’s virtually comical. Tesla might very merely share information from its hundreds of thousands of miles of FSD Beta and present how the disengagement or driver intervention per mile is doing. It might be a simple metric to trace over time and by no means similar to anecdotal proof and even your individual private expertise with the FSD Beta.
Tesla’s insistence on not sharing this info is beginning to look suspiciously unhealthy.
Within the meantime, Musk is completely prepared to make daring statements about Tesla reaching self-driving on unbelievably brief timelines, which Tesla makes use of to promote extra vehicles.
Musk must get off Twitter the place his legions of superfans are fawning over the FSD Beta and be a part of actuality the place individuals have critical and cheap doubts about Tesla’s progress towards reaching an actual self-driving system.
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