In a follow-up video, Russell made a passing mention about how Tesla “ doesn’t want” people in the beta sharing clips that look bad while making a larger point explaining why he posted the video to begin with. A hedge fund owner shared this clip on Twitter, where many people (rightfully) were aghast at how close the car came to running over pedestrians. In it, Russell’s car should be merging left, but it suddenly takes a dive to the right, eventually pointing straight at pedestrians in a crosswalk. Recently, though, a clip from a video originally shot by Tesla owner and investor Galileo Russell went viral and charged the conversation even more.Ī few people in the “Full Self-Driving” beta show the software with no edits, warts and all
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This whole process - the years of unfulfilled claims of being able to make fully autonomous cars, the idea of beta testing in-development drivers assistance software on public streets with untrained owners behind the wheel - has drawn Musk and Tesla a lot of scrutiny. That does not describe a fully autonomous car.) Tesla CEO Elon Musk has himself even said that he believes the “feature complete” version of the software his company calls “Full Self-Driving” will, at best, only be “ likely” to drive someone from their home to work without human intervention and will still require supervision. (As always, to be clear: this software does not make Tesla’s cars fully autonomous. Others post the raw footage, warts and all. Some compress their longer drives into supercuts, speeding up the footage to emphasize just how far the software can take them without human intervention. Many also film themselves traveling around with the software running. Some of them take their roles as “beta testers” quite seriously and try to find flaws in the system in an effort to help Tesla make the software better. Tesla has allowed a small group of die-hard owners to test the beta version of the “Full Self-Driving” software for about a year now. “there are a lot of people that want Tesla to fail”