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Tesla is pushing a free one-month trial of its FSD Beta driver-assistance software to US customers
The push to promote the software comes at the end of the quarter, and as Tesla is set to go to trial in a case involving a fatal 2018 crash.
The full-court press to promote FSD Beta software, an upgraded version of the Autopilot system that comes standard in all Tesla vehicles, is happening at an interesting moment for the company. Huang was distracted at the time — investigators ultimately discovered that he had been playing a mobile game just before the crash — but the lawsuit centers around how Tesla represented Autopilot’s capabilities, and whether it did enough to prevent drivers from misusing it. Many of Tesla’s most ardent supporters have praised the new version, as well as some of its employees and executives, including policy head Rohan Patel, who posted on X that he feels “fully comfy telling my family to try out FSD anywhere.”
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