Elon Musk has pointed out that Tesla Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA) is now targeting a public release of its FSD Beta software for next month. The statement arrives after blazing controversy for the recent accidents involving the firm’s cars’ Autopilot feature.
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FSD Beta Update Announced
Elon Musk said that a larger release of the beta version of his Full-Self Driving (FSD) software will arrive in about four weeks. he took to Twitter and said that a new version of FSD Beta 10 –Tesla’s latest update on autonomous driving software– will be released on the next month’s first Friday.
The beta version would take a few weeks for “adjustments and bug fixes,” as Musk explained on the social media platform.
“Most likely, the public beta button will be available in about 4 weeks,” he said.
Musk and his team at Tesla, along with an army of beta testers and Early Access customers, have been testing the software’s autonomous driving capabilities for a while.
The software allows Tesla vehicles to drive themselves on both highways and city streets, but they still need an alert driver at all times.
Controversy
Musk’s latest comment comes shortly after he said on Twitter that the experimental FSD 9.2 driver assistance software update was not great. He later pointed out that he had tried the next update, which seemed to be “much better.”
He also said the latest FSD update definitely “seemed to work better in California” than in Rhode Island. According to Musk, Tesla plans to release updates every two weeks on Friday around midnight California time.
As widely reported, safety authorities in the U.S. opened a preliminary investigation into Tesla’s Autopilot “after identifying 11 crashes involving this assisted driving system, officials reported Monday.”
Senate Democrats also pounced on the company, calling for the Federal Trade Commission to investigate the issues.
“The incidents, dating back to 2018, included one fatal crash and seven that resulted in injuries, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA).”
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