Tesla’s “don’t blame us it’s beta software” schtick is getting real old. No other automaker deflects all blame on faulty safety related system that way.
It's the Silicon Valley way, and it has no place in safety critical systems like cars. Ironically, Tesla is the worlds highest valued car company specifically because they pretend to be a software company. In a way they've made their testing an external cost that customers and other members of the public pay for them.
Governments (or EU) should just ban all beta software from public roads. You want to ship a feature to customers? Fine, but you'll have to take responsibility for it first. Make sure it's tested, has well understood failure modes, who's to blame if it malfunctions, etc.
>Fine, but you'll have to take responsibility for it first.
This is kind of where I draw the line. If the manufacturer isn't willing to accept liability, then I'm not going to believe them when they say that the car can drive itself, especially if I'm paying for said feature.
Also the argument that "the driver can opt-out" is so facile. I don't drive a Tesla, I can't opt out of the beta but I still need to live with the Teslas in my town.
Tesla is aggressively and non-consensually consuming part of my daily road-safety budget to subsidize development of beta software in pursuit of long-term profits.
Now if they open-sourced their FSD sensor data to help train other self-driving systems I think my perspective would be different.
