Tesla halts FSD beta rollout to drivers, citing concerns

A planned rollout of Tesla’s Full Self-Driving Beta 10.2 to around 1,000 Tesla owners with “perfect” safety scores was delayed on Saturday. Explaining the delay, CEO Elon Musk said there were “some last minute concerns about the construction.”

Tesla owners were in turmoil earlier this week when Musk announced that around 1,000 pilots with perfect safety notes– the 0 to 100 scale that the company uses to determine if the driver will have a future accident – would receive the beta version of FSD 10.2 on Friday at midnight. Contrary to its name, the software does not allow Tesla cars to drive themselves. It provides assistance on highways and city streets, but requires driver supervision at all times.

As with everything Musk deadlines, this one was taken with a grain of salt. Ultimately, Tesla did not deploy FSD.

“Some last minute concerns about this build. Release likely Sunday or Monday. Sorry for the delay,” the CEO tweeted early Saturday.

Musk did not say what last-minute concerns caused the delay. However, hearing that FSD 10.2 is having issues comes as no surprise. Just about two months ago, Tesla said that FSD’s beta 9, which has been delayed for years, could “do the wrong thing at the worst time.”

Tesla’s original plan was to release version 10.2 to around 1,000 drivers with a score of 100/100 and analyze how they did with the software for several days. If the release looked good, Musk Explain, 10.2 would gradually begin to be rolled out to drivers with scores of 99 and below. FSD system has been used by 2,000 drivers for almost a year without an accident, CEO said said in september, adding that it was necessary to stay that way.

“FSD’s beta system can sometimes seem so good that vigilance isn’t necessary, but it does. Also, any beta user who is not very careful will be started, ”Musk said at the time.

According to Tesla website, a driver’s safety score is based on five metrics called “safety factors”, which are: A higher score indicates a higher level of safer driver, the company says, most drivers should have a safety score of 80 and above.

Tesla has recently been criticized by regulators such as the National Transportation Safety Board. Agency director Jennifer Homendy told the the Wall Street newspaper in September that the company is not expected to release the latest beta of FSD until it fixes its security technology flaws.