With October 8 set as the new Tesla Full Self-Driving (FSD) beta 10.2 release date, after being delayed from the original release date set for today, some Tesla customers are wondering if the expansion of the beta program to more users will still happen Friday, or if it will be pushed back too.
On Friday, @Elon Musk responded to a question confirming Tesla’s plans to push back the expansion of the FSD beta’s user base, in order to coincide with the release date of FSD beta 10.2.
In earlier comments, Musk explained that Tesla plans to onboard nearly 1,000 owners a day after the 10.2 FSD beta release, prioritizing customers based on safety ratings from data gathered within their Tesla vehicles, known as Safety Scores.
Pushed a week to align with 10.2
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 1, 2021
Tesla’s FSD beta 10.1 release was also slightly delayed after Musk originally said in August that the public FSD release would take place in four weeks. Still, the almost-timely release of each new update is, frankly, pretty good as far as Tesla’s normal standards sometimes go.
In a recent report, San Francisco officials detailed their concerns about the wider release of Tesla’s FSD systems, mostly saying that they were concerned about the safety record of FSD and its name “Full Self-Driving” being confusing and misleading.
It’s worth noting that Tesla’s FSD beta is currently only at a Level 2 of autonomy, so whether the name is misleading or not (the NTSB thinks so), human drivers are told by Tesla to be fully engaged, and ready to take control of the vehicle at any point.
