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Re:US moves closer to recalling Tesla’s self-driving software by epgui on Saturday June 11, 2022 @03:55PM (#31707707)
The company doesn’t consider autopilot to be in beta, but it does call FSD this.
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Re:US moves closer to recalling Tesla’s self-driving software by robonerd on Saturday June 11, 2022 @03:57PM (#31707723)
> The company doesn’t consider autopilot to be in beta

That only makes it even worse.

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Re:US moves closer to recalling Tesla’s self-driving software by epgui on Saturday June 11, 2022 @04:02PM (#31707763)
I think the question of whether something is a beta is different than whether anyone thinks it ought to be. There’s a lot of “non-beta”, but bad, software.
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Re:US moves closer to recalling Tesla’s self-driving software by robonerd on Saturday June 11, 2022 @04:03PM (#31707776)
Tesla thinking this software is production ready shows a complete disconnect from either reality or common morality.
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Re:US moves closer to recalling Tesla’s self-driving software by Barrin92 on Saturday June 11, 2022 @05:05PM (#31708398)
the difference being that most of that software doesn't move two tons of steel through traffic at lethal velocities so maybe accurate terminology is appropriate here.
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