This is still drivers liability....
I feel sorry for making this statement.
And from my personal opinion no person should be allowed on any legal road to operate in Beta mode without clearly being visible by some type of signs on vehicle or flashing lights when operating in Beta mode.
I have read fine print for Tesla AP and it is drivers responsibility. This type of accidents and people who have died in this type of crashes using AP....should awake government policy makers to make rules how this type of technology is going to be used in future on legal roads and have restrictions on how long it can be used in 24 hours. People who sign up for this Beta mode should pass orientation on how to use this untested technology and have all risks explained to them. Each vehicle that is enabled for Beta mode should have assigned person on duty from Tesla support. If all people have read fine print...they would figure out quickly that all malfunctions on software side will make driver liable for accident..... many will think twice before signing up. Vehicle insurance companies will get involved in this very soon. If owner of Tesla is Beta tester....Tesla should provide liability protection and life insurance in case of Beta tester death and accident that will be resolved later who to blame ( Tesla or Beta Tester).
There is a reason why manufacturers have special plates on vehicles when doing testing and driving on legal roads....
This should be enforced on all manufacturers not just Tesla...Tesla is pioneering unknown technology that eventually will work as promised....but in this process all people should be protected and aware of specific vehicles that are used for Beta testing to other drivers that they should take greater care when driving around this vehicles.
Always driver’s liability unless lawyer can find holes in the clause, make new citations or push for expensive settlements. FSD beta code is designed to never crash but may come to a sudden stop if there is an imminent crash. Sometimes going in narrow unmarked streets it will confidently play chicken with oncoming cars.
FSD beta or even TACC with a distracted, drunk, depressed, asleep driver is safer than no autonomy with distracted, drunk, depressed, asleep drivers which is 99% of accidents daily. It’s frightening while on autopilot or TACC I notice how often people accidentally veer off lane and when glancing over they are texting or distracted momentarily in older cars that just has basic cruise control.
Agree with orientation or testing. I think there should be a built in quiz or some simulation game on the screen to learn proper use of autonomy before activated. I was enrolled in the first wave of FSD Beta test for safety score built in the software which took me 3 weeks of granny driving. Now it only takes 100 miles of safe driving+15k or 200 a month.