For testers of Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (FSD) beta software, if you’re not safely operating your vehicle, you can get ‘strikes’ and eventually get locked out of the program.
The FSD beta program offers a warning for drivers when there is “improper use of FSD beta”, as indicated by your car’s telemetry data. Tesla offers five FSD strikes before kicking a beta tester out of the program (originally it was 3 strikes). The reasoning is to ensure only the safe operation of vehicles is maintained with FSD beta.
Tesla owners can see how many ‘strikes’ they have accumulated in the FSD beta menu within their car, while also notified by email as well.
So when will Tesla reset FSD beta ‘strikes’? On Sunday morning, Elon Musk replied to an owner that asked if the reset is “coming” for FSD beta ‘strikes’.
Coming
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 28, 2022
Now, we’re unclear how long exactly it will take for these FSD beta ‘strikes’ to actually reset—because of “Elon time”, but for those wondering, stay patient and eventually you’ll be able to re-join the FSD beta program (despite paying to test it).
Later in the day, Musk added more specific details, saying “hopefully this week.”
Hopefully, this week
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 28, 2022
Tesla currently has FSD beta 10.69 out, with a wider release of 10.69.1 coming tomorrow. A price increase for FSD is coming to $15,000 for North America in September.
That would suck, after paying all that money and you don’t get to use it.
Use it responsibly and you won’t lose it?
I paid for FSD when I bought my Model X three years ago but there’s no beta program herr.in Switzerland, so I paid $$$$$ for FSD and basically get nothing for it; in fact, what little it does do is being would back, e.g. the car no longer automatically takes freeway off-ramps, and it sees speed restriction signs but does not act on them at all.
When are we getting meaningful FSD in Switzerland??? (And how about some more superchargers, e.g. in Jura, where there are none?)
It sounds to me like you didn’t do enough research on it before buying. The regulators are the big hold up I think.
Lol. There is no way in hell that in the next decade, Tesla or any other company is going to develop a fully autonomous vehicle that can cope with variable weather conditions, roadworks, roundabouts, unposted speed limits, common-knowledge traffic rules (e.g. give way to the right, even if you’re on a major thoroughfare — a bizarre rule here), let alone deal with the vagaries of other human drivers. Hell, my car’s cameras can’t even deal with rain! How often have we seen the notification that “XYZ camera is blocked”?
The very least I expect is for beta FSD to be offered in every country! Currently, FSD is literally customers paying to be guinea pigs for Tesla’s research, ad being given nothing in return. Imagine if Apple promised the world to iPhone users but delivered nothing. They’d be sued.
You can choose to believe what you like I suppose but I’ll choose to believe in this possibility because it will save millions of lives and the sooner it arrives, the sooner that starts happening. In fact it already has, as FSD plus human driving today is safer than just human drivers, a lot safer and Tesla has the data to prove it. It’s already here my friend and now it is munching away on the edge cases. It doesn’t need to learn how to deal with them all, it just needs to learn how to learn how to deal with them so that even the new ones like you and me come across once in a while will be dealt with the same way you and I do, our experience guides us and we continue to learn as we do and so will it.
You are not ENTITLED to participate in beta testing. You paid for the public release software, which will, eventually, offer the same features that are currently in beta.
“Eventually”… there’s the key word. The salesman at Tesla assured us, three years ago, that FSD would be rolled out to everybody within one year. So, just the usual lies one should expect from (new) car salesmen, then.
I suggest selling your Tesla. Obviously you will never be satisfied.
I will indeed be selling it soon. Apart from the non-existent self-driving capability, the build quality and comfort levels of this $120,000+ car are appalling. I knew that American-built cars are generally badly built, but the panel gaps, persistent squeaks and rattles, continually failing charge cables, cheap plastics, lack of ventilation and massage in the seats, lack of memory setting for the front passenger seat, and myriad other drawbacks put my Tesla at the same level as a basic Hyundai.
Now the Mercedes-Benz EQS is available at a similar price point, there is no contest. I have owned several Mercedes models, a Ferrari, an Aston Martin, Audis, Jaguars… any of these (even the Ferrari) were better built and far better equipped than the Tesla. A couple of flashy screens and trick doors don’t compensate for third-rate quality and undelivered promises. Tesla definitely built a leadership position with relatively high range and good performance, but now they’re losing on those measures to other marques that also deliver far superior comfort, quality and dependability. My guess is it’s down to complacency and a certain level of arrogance.
The community won’t miss you. Buh bye!
You don’t pay ANY money to participate in the Beta. You paid for the PUBLIC release…the beta TESTING is a privilege.