Bad news for Tesla enthusiast and fans as the much anticipated Tesla FSD rollout has
been plagued with a series of issues that has threatened the rollout of the products.
These challenges are quite unusual as Tesla is known for producing quality product but
the FSD failure has turned out to be the worst product rolled out by Tesla thus far as it
continues to suffer more and more setbacks.
Find out in this video how the FSD rollout for Tesla has been disappointing and how it
affecting Tesla.
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Tesla FSD flaws Tesla is a world leader when it comes to the
development of electric cars.
The company is currently the most valued automobile company in the world ahead of Ford GM, and
other market competitors.
The company has grown since its establishment in 2003 overtaking many established companies
to top the list of most valuable automobile companies in the world.
The company was the first automobile brand to reach a trillion-dollar market cap a feat
no other automobile brand has ever come near to date.
It just seems as Tesla is destined for success.
Driving the surge in Tesla value has been its electric car brand which has increasingly
gained more attention as more and more people seek to transition to clean energy which is
much needed at this point.
In addition to the production of electric cars, Tesla vehicles have some autonomous
features which were designed to make driving a lot easier.
This feature is known as Tesla's Full Self Driving ( Tesla FSD) It is one of the distinguishing
features of the Tesla Brand.
Tesla s Full Self-Driving (FSD) beta allows the car driver to choose from three driving
profiles.
These driving profiles dictate to a large extent how the car will react to certain situations
on the road.
The mode includes Chill, Average, and Assertive,".
What differentiates these modes is the degree of aggressiveness which varies remarkably.
The feature was included in the October 2021 version 10.3 update.
Tesla's FSD software is offered as a one-time purchase, currently priced at $12,000, or
as a subscription for $199 each month.
Unfortunately, not every FSD customer or subscriber gets to use these advanced self-driving features.
Tesla calculates a safety score based on driving metrics from the recent past.
If the score indicates that the driver isn't paying close enough attention to the road
or is driving too aggressively, FSD use will not be allowed despite paying for this feature.
Even after qualifying and using FSD, it can be taken away if the driver's safety scores
fall
But the rollout of these features has faced obstacles since it was debuted.
And as a matter of fact, the rollout of these products has not been successful this far
due to cases of accidents involving the vehicle.
Tesla recently issued a swift rollback of its Full Self-Driving Beta software after
it was harshly criticized by drivers who received it via an over-the-air update.
Now, the automaker has sent out a formal recall with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
over the matter.
The problem first began on Oct. 23 2021 after its initial roll out of the update which was
sent to vehicles enrolled in Tesla's FSD Beta, a program which despite its name is not an
autonomous driving system.
According to the notice filed with the NHTSA, this initially affected 11,704 vehicles across
Tesla's lineup, including Models S, X, 3 and Y.
Vehicles recalled were all running software "2021.36.5.2," better known as "FSD Beta 10.3."
Tesla doesn't explicitly identify the software as FSD Beta 10.3 in the recall notes, though
it does acknowledge that the software was only pushed to vehicles enrolled in the Full
Self-Driving Beta.
The recall was related to user experts which have not been pleasant for most drivers.
Some drivers experienced constant phantom emergency braking, even when maintaining a
safe following distance behind other vehicles.
The update was referred to online as "bad," "broken," "jank," "terrifying," and "almost
undrivable."
The problem associated with the FSD was present in vehicles waking up from Sentry Mode and
Summon Standby Mode, both of which cause an onboard chip to enter a low-power state.
This, according to Tesla, caused an unexpected communication disconnection which consequently
caused a series of inconsistencies in detected object velocity.
The vehicles then displayed false forward-collision warnings and some engaged the vehicle's automatic
emergency braking procedure.
Meanwhile, Tesla is already under the NHTSA's watchful eye over a separate OTA update.
The federal regulatory body launched a probe into Tesla earlier in late 2021.
This was related to the update also which was sent out.
The update was expected to make Tesla vehicles easily identify stationary emergency vehicles.
But unfortunately, it resulted in about 11 collisions which thankful did not result in
the loss of lives and properties but caused some minor injuries to the driver.
The vehicles collided with firetrucks, and police cruisers while it was on Autopilot.
According to the NHTSA, the first victim to report the FSD beta failure was an unidentified
customer living in Brea, California, with a Tesla Model Y RWD According to the report
published on the NHTSA website, the car sounded a warning.
However, it was halfway through the turn.
The driver tried to steer the vehicle back to the correct lane, but the car would have
taken control and forced itself into the incorrect lane(,) creating an unsafe maneuver (and)
putting everyone involved at risk
Before this period, Tesla and the NHTSA have had issues with the safety of the FSD.
The head of the National Transportation Safety Board already expressed serious concerns about
the safety of the Tesla FSD during the initial roll out.
But Tesla ignore this warning and decided to go ahead with yeh rollout.
Tesla even expanded its use as the company enabled access to the beta version of its
Full Self-Driving (FSD) program to more Tesla drivers, via a request button on Teslas dashboard
screens.
However, before a driver gets access to the software, Tesla claims to have a mechanism
to regulate its use.
Using the safety score which will determine the likelihood for a driver to crash his or
her car.
The safety score is based on 5 criteria according to Tesla.
Even at this, Jennifer Homendy, chair of the National Transportation Safety Board, was
buying into the safety mechanism as she wasn't convinced enough of the capabilities of the
system.
And so it is not surprising to see the whole process turn out into a mess for Tesla.
As a result of this mess, Tesla would have to recall over 53,822 vehicles in the U.S.
due to a feature in its Full Self-Driving (FSD) software that prevents them from coming
to a full stop at intersections.1 The "rolling stop" functionality enables drivers to drive
past traffic intersections at slow speeds, ranging from five to six miles per hour.
The recall puts The FSD under the spotlight testing the claims and the safety of the FSD
functionality, which is still in beta testing mode.
The interesting thing is that due From a few thousand at the beginning of September last
year, FSD has garnered more than 60,000 users, as the company reported in its latest earnings
call.
It is part of a suite of software services that are expected to drive Tesla's future
revenue growth.
Despite these challenges, Elon Musk the CEO of Tesla is still adamant that the FSD would
work.
Interestingly, Mr. Elon Musk expects the technology to drive sales of the existing fleet of Tesla
vehicles.
When he was asked about the company's strategy to achieve 3 million vehicles in sales by
2024 without the introduction of new models, Musk said that the "gravity" of FSD was underappreciated,
meaning the functionality will attract more buyers to the company's existing vehicle fleet.
But with the way things are going, the issues of accidents and the likes, it looks impossible
but you never can rule out the multi-talented entrepreneur who has led Tesla to this point.
Obviously, if Tesla was going to come out of these, it has to find a lasting solution
to this problem.
But considering the issues already on the ground with NHTSA and the recall, it seems
as if Tesla might have to suspend the rollout of its FSD products temporarily till they
find a lasting solution.
The news of the recalls has already affected Tesla shares as the company grappled with
the reports of the issue.
If this persists, the ambitious goal of 3 million sales of electric vehicles could be
affected Tesla might have to keep battling with this,
but what do you think, have tried the FSD feature of any Tesla models before?
Share your thoughts with us and do you trust Elon Musk to finally fix these issues??
Let's get your responses in the comment section, that will be all for today.
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