Tesla FSD being tested on road, receives ‘interesting’ response including a video banned from YouTube

Elon Musk announced on Twitter that Tesla's autonomous driving system, the Full Self driving (FSD) beta, will receive two new releases soon based on its current 10.69 version.

The Tesla Full-Self Driving feature is one of the most advanced driving systems available for modern vehicles, but it is not yet available to all automotive companies especially electric vehicles juggernauts.

Although the self-driving software is still in the public beta testing phase, there’s already a surge of price that sells early September for RM68K ($15,000), an increase of 25%.

A video of Tesla’s Full Self Driving (FSD) software being tested to determine whether Tesla vehicles would automatically avoid colliding with pedestrians received a backfire from netizens until it got removed from YouTube under the company’s policy over harmful and dangerous content.

YouTube Spokesperson Elena Hernandez explained that the company does not allow content that depicts a minor engaging in dangerous activities.  

‘’After reviewing the videos, we determined that they violated our harmful and dangerous policies and that we had the content removed" as she penned in an email.

This case drew attention to The Dawn's Project, a campaign focusing on the dangers of Tesla's FSD software. On June 21 this year, the advertising company conducted a professional test of Tesla's Full Service-Driving Technology at Willow Springs International Raceway in Rosamond, California.

As a result, a Tesla Model 3 equipped with the most recent version of Full Self-Driving Beta software (10.12.2) at that time, repeatedly collided with the mannequin in a way that would kill a real child.  The team believes that the software poses a clear risk to human life and strongly advises to have it removed from the market immediately.

According to Tad Park, a Tesla owner and investor in Elon Musk's company, driving a Model 3 vehicle at eight miles per hour towards one of his children on a San Francisco Bay Area driveway resulted in no injuries.

"At first we tried on a mannequin, then we tried with a tall basketball player, then finally one kid stood, and my other kid crossed the street," Park wrote in a follow-up email.

Park conducted the tests in part as a rebuttal to software company founder Dan O'Dowd's national advertising campaign criticizing Tesla's driver assistance features.

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