"FSD beta" refers to the specific autonomy-in-all-circumstances product in testing. You have to request it, then prove you can win a game vs. the car's Safety Score feature for a few weeks or months, then wait to be upgraded. It's available to the public, but only in limited release.

"Full Self Driving" is the name of the vehicle option that you can purchase or license, which includes a bunch of different features (light/sign recognition, autonomous navigation on highways, lane changes, stuff like that).

> You have to request it, then prove you can win a game vs. the car's Safety Score feature for a few weeks or months, then wait to be upgraded. It's available to the public, but only in limited release.

Or have enough social media clout (in the appropriately Tesla-positive direction).

Are you referencing anything in particular? It's true that the first few hundred non-Tesla-employee installs were to a bunch of known fans and inflencer types. But since September it's been a completely public thing with objective rules. They have 60k of these cars on the roads now per the linked article, it's absolutely not just a marketing thing.

No.