Why not restrict your beta testing to a closed course? A race track? Some land you bought out in the middle of the desert? Have the kids make some some stop signs, plow your new roads, etc.
No one else on the road is consenting to a technology that could rapidly accelerate and course correct into their vehicle at some undetermined time.
Funding responsible self driving research seems like a great use of money to me, but testing an flawed system in the wild does not.
For those that didn't buy it, you can 'rent' it for a monthly subscription fee.
I hate to say it but starting to get this vibe too, particularly when I watch interviews from him which are 1-3 years old. They don't age well.
They're full of promises like, "only do good things for your fellow man, be useful etc" and those ethos seem to be lost now.
The fact that you associate those ideals with purchasing a consumer product made by a public company is intentional.
Unfortunately, it increasing looks like the experiment has failed. But not because of us. We're pissed because Musk isn't doing his part in the deal. He's not pulling his weight. At this point, he's becoming more and more an anchor around the neck of technological progress. That didn't need to happen. It didn't need to be this way. So yeah, we're pissed off, not just because of the money we paid, but also because we feel like we were defrauded by his failure to pull his own weight in the deal.
I wouldn't be surprised to see him make his escape to the Bahamas before this decade is up.