The Full Self-Driving assistance software has been slowly rolling out to select motorists, giving them a taste of what's to come.
The company has been using safety scores to decide who gets an upgrade based on driving behavior such as the number of forward collision warnings per 600 miles.
Despite the obvious public safety risks, some drivers with a near perfect score of at least 98 out of 100 have been able to try out the unfinished self- driving software on public roads.
The number of cars in the program is going to be doubled. He had said in March that anyone with a score of at least 95 could join.
If the latest reports on social media are to be believed, the safety score requirements may have been scrapped or greatly reduced in order to allow anyone to try out the feature.
Whole Mars Catalog, who's close with Musk Musk on social media, wrote that someone said they were in the queue for the free trial of the service. There was no safety score.
Screenshots shared by Whole Mars Catalog show a person telling another person that they were going to get the FSD without any safety score.
They were told by an unnamed person that they were in a queue and that they had to download the update right away.
Whole Mars Catalog pointed out that there is a possibility that the previous owner wasEnrolled or something.
Even if that were the case, it's clear that the safety score vetting system has some issues if it's allowing those without a score at all to slip through the cracks.
Users said that they were able to get access.
One user wrote that they got it on two cars, both with bad safety scores, and that their scores were 93 and 94, below the recently announced threshold of 95.
Half-baked software that can take full control over a 1.6 ton vehicle in the middle of an urban area is not confidence inducing.
We won't be holding our breath since the company dissolved its PR department a long time ago.
More members with a 95 safety score have been added to the program.
The experts are alarmed by the videos of self- driving.