Letting a Telsa thing self drive at over 100kph is actually kind of wild.
The FSD Beta software is also different than the standard autopilot lane-keeping and adaptive cruise control system. It’s labeled as a Beta for a reason. Drivers must opt-in to the beta and agree to be alert and responsive. Tesla won’t even offer the Beta to you unless you exhibit safe driving behaviors.
Whether or not beta software should be on the roads at all is still a valid question. I think Tesla would make the argument that no software will be sufficiently refined until it is tested by a huge variation of real world conditions. Opponents of Tesla will argue that this software isn’t tested enough to release to even a small section of the general public.
Do I trust Tesla to write software that works to a degree where I would entrust it with my life? No.
The team that builds the VW (and other euro makers) software also worked on Airbus autopilot.
Got to nerd out with one of the (retired) lead engineers there and the only thing he’d get into with full autonomous driving was a Waymo.
That said, Elon's nearly decade long hypefest should be thoroughly discredited by now: Camera-only AV looks to be a dead end and it is exemplifying why "the best part is no part" does not trump "premature optimization kills."
“I heard some engineers used to work at Airbus” doesn’t mean anything.