Tesla Launches Full Self Driving 10 Beta With Safer Decision Making

While Tesla’s latest big beta of fully autonomous driving was all about enabling more semi-autonomous features off the highway, its latest release is more about helping you trust those features. Electrek notes that Tesla has started rolling out a beta version of Full Self Driving 10 which from the start reports, seems to be making smarter, safer decisions off the highway. This won’t necessarily “surprise” you, like Elon Musk claims, but it seems to offer smoother turns, roundabouts and mergers. A driver discovered he had finally navigated San Francisco’s winding Lombard Street without requiring intervention.

Users also remark improved visuals. You won’t always see as many stats as before, but they seem to be more accurate and stable without so many twitching. You will have a better idea of ​​what the car is seeing, and you may be more confident in its decisions.

Highway driving hasn’t changed, but it’s intentional. Musk said Production-level, non-beta highway navigation is still “more refined” than the Full Self Driving equivalent at this time. You may not see a truly harmonized approach until version 10.1.

It’s not clear when regular Tesla owners might see FSD 10. However, it might be easier to try out drafts for a long time. Musk hoped a public option to request the beta would be available with version 10.1 which could arrive in as little as two weeks. The upgrades won’t necessarily justify the hefty prices of the FSD package, but you might just be happier with the purchase, if only because you can rely on not quite unmanned features more often.