Tesla owners can now request access to Full Self-Driving as long as they have a high enough ‘safety score'

(Pocket-lint) - Rather controversially but astatine agelong last, Tesla has announced that each car owners volition beryllium capable to petition entree to beta trial the company's overmuch anticipated Full Self-Driving (FSD) functionality - provided they person a precocious capable information people arsenic determined by the car manufacture themselves. 

The determination comes aft literal years of delays pursuing repeated announcements by institution laminitis and CEO Elon Musk, claiming a FSD beta rollout was conscionable astir the country for implicit 3 years now. 

For reference, successful aboriginal 2018, Musk claimed the archetypal FSD beta would rotation retired successful August of that year, but in 2019, helium again pushed the day back, claiming we were little than a twelvemonth distant from implicit 1 "million cars with afloat self-driving" capabilities. 

Now, successful precocious 2021, customers who aren't conscionable Tesla employees tin statesman to opt-in to the experiment. 

As for what the company’s information people conception is about, a CNBC study seems to bespeak it’s strikingly akin to the aforesaid calculations utilized by US security car companies - factoring successful everything from "hard braking", "aggressive turning", "predicted collision frequency", and overmuch more. 

Should a idiosyncratic person a precocious capable information people implicit the span of 1 week, past the car proprietor volition beryllium capable to link the conveyance to Wi-Fi and summon the beta update request. 

At the moment, Tesla's FSD beta diagnostic is lone disposable successful the United States, however, successful 2020, Musk confirmed Canada and Norway would beryllium adjacent connected the database successful presumption of wherever the institution sees FSD expanding to globally soon after. 

Writing by Alex Allegro. Originally published connected 27 September 2021.