{"id":20229,"date":"2022-04-18T12:04:04","date_gmt":"2022-04-18T16:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=20229"},"modified":"2022-04-18T12:04:04","modified_gmt":"2022-04-18T16:04:04","slug":"tesla-fsd-beta-100k-test-drivers-musk-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=20229","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk Says Tesla&#8217;s FSD Now Has Over 100,000 Beta Testers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to Tesla CEO Elon Musk, over 100,000 drivers are part of the automaker&#8217;s Full Self-Driving (FSD) Beta testing program. He also reiterated that Tesla will solve FSD before the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll start by saying, if you haven&#8217;t watched the <a href=\"https:\/\/insideevs.com\/news\/category\/elon-musk\/\" data-inline-widget=\"internal-links\" data-type-id=\"8\" data-params=\"%7B%22section_route%22%3A%22news%22%2C%22alias%22%3A%22elon-musk%22%7D\">Elon Musk<\/a> interview above, you should carve out some time to check it out.\u00a0The recently published TED talk interview with Chris Anderson is honestly one of the better interviews we&#8217;ve seen of late. There is loads of information to take in.<\/p>\n<p>One juicy morsel found in the interview was a comment Musk made about <a href=\"https:\/\/insideevs.com\/tag\/tesla-full-self-driving\/\" data-inline-widget=\"internal-links\" data-type-id=\"7\" data-params=\"%7B%22tag%22%3A%22Tesla's%20Full%20Self-Driving%20Beta%20technology%22%2C%22originalTitle%22%3A%22Tesla%20Full%20Self-Driving%22%2C%22alias%22%3A%22tesla-full-self-driving%22%7D\">Tesla&#8217;s Full Self-Driving Beta technology<\/a>. As you may remember, Musk said earlier this year that he&#8217;ll be shocked if <a href=\"https:\/\/insideevs.com\/tesla\/\" data-inline-widget=\"internal-links\" data-type-id=\"2\" data-params=\"%7B%22alias%22%3A%22tesla%22%7D\">Tesla<\/a> isn&#8217;t finished with FSD by the end of 2022. He&#8217;s made this claim before, though not during a time that the technology was launched to a huge fleet of beta testers. If FSD is &#8220;finished&#8221; before the end of 2022, all drivers who have paid for the technology will likely gain access to it.<\/p>\n<p>Tesla has been slowly rolling out the FSD Beta technology to owners so they can test it in real-world driving. At first, the company only allowed a small group of people to test the system, and it chose those people based on its in-house Safety Score, which it&#8217;s also using as a component of its in-house insurance program. It has since been expanding the program significantly.<\/p>\n<p>Anderson asked Musk about his FSD timeline. More specifically, he wanted to know when Musk thinks Tesla will achieve full self-driving capability. Anderson made it clear that achievement would mean it&#8217;s safer than a human driver and could handle driving in most areas with human intervention. Musk replied via <em>Teslarati<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"9\">\n<p><em>\u201cYes, I mean, the car currently drives me around Austin most of the time with no interventions. And we have over 100,000 people in our full self-driving beta program.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Anderson went on to ask Musk why the system&#8217;s development is taking much longer than anticipated, referencing the fact that Musk has said it will be ready by the end of the year for years now. It&#8217;s almost become a bit of a joke like Musk&#8217;s &#8220;two weeks&#8221; comments. Every year, the CEO says FSD will be feature-complete by the end of the year, but it has yet to happen.<\/p>\n<p>Musk told Anderson that there have been many times throughout the development of FSD that it seemed progress was notable. However, there were many &#8220;false dawns&#8221; along the way. Just when Tesla thought it had solved something huge, it proved to be a more minor improvement than anticipated. Musk compared it to log curves, adding:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"7\">\n<p><em>\u201cIt goes up \u2014 you know \u2014 sort of fairly straight away. And then it starts tailing off, and you start getting diminishing returns.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Essentially, Musk said Tesla has made much progress on many occasions, to a point that the technology&#8217;s success seemed to top off. This required going back to the drawing board and rethinking the self-driving project. He reiterated that solving FSD really means solving &#8220;real-world AI.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Once Tesla realized the need to rethink the technology and the process itself, it began to focus on the more recent camera-based vision-only approach. Musk is now more confident than ever that the new approach to hardware and AI is what&#8217;s needed to successfully deploy Tesla&#8217;s Full Self-Driving capability sooner rather than later.<\/p>\n<section class=\"relatedContent-new\" contenteditable=\"false\" draggable=\"true\" data-widget=\"related-content\" data-widget-size=\"content\" data-params=\"%7B%22type_id%22%3A0%2C%22title_id%22%3A%22%22%2C%22items%22%3A%5B%7B%22article_edition_id%22%3A%22572444%22%2C%22title%22%3A%22Tesla%20Pens%20Letter%20To%20US%20Senators%20Defending%20Its%20Autopilot%20%26%20FSD%20Beta%22%2C%22alias%22%3A%22tesla-letter-to-senators-defends-adas-technology%22%2C%22section%22%3A%221%22%2C%22is_video%22%3A%220%22%2C%22images%22%3A%7B%22s5%22%3A%22https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.motor1.com%2Fimages%2Fmgl%2FnJOXx%2Fs5%2Ftesla-full-self-driving-to-service-center.jpg%22%7D%7D%2C%7B%22article_edition_id%22%3A%22572925%22%2C%22title%22%3A%22Tesla%20Prioritizes%20Reservations%20That%20Include%20%2412%2C000%20Full%20Self-Driving%22%2C%22alias%22%3A%22tesla-reservations-model-y-fsd%22%2C%22section%22%3A%221%22%2C%22is_video%22%3A%220%22%2C%22images%22%3A%7B%22s5%22%3A%22https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.motor1.com%2Fimages%2Fmgl%2FwloLbo%2Fs5%2Ftesla-model-y-home-charging.jpg%22%7D%7D%5D%7D\">   <\/section>\n<p>What do you think? Will another year go by with no wide release of Tesla&#8217;s FSD capability? Is the vision-based approach the answer? Start a conversation in our comment section below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Tesla CEO Elon Musk, over 100,000 drivers are part of the automaker&#8217;s Full Self-Driving (FSD) Beta testing program. He also reiterated that Tesla will solve FSD before the end of the year. We&#8217;ll start by saying, if you haven&#8217;t watched the Elon Musk interview above, you should carve out some time to check [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20230,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-e-cars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}