According to the Los Angeles Times, the California Department of Motor Vehicles is further reviewing the regulatory process for Tesla's fully autonomous driving test program to determine whether it can be held under dmv (Motor Vehicle Administration)'s self-driving car regulations. The rules apply to other automakers trying to develop self-driving cars, including Waymo, Cruise and Zoox. Tesla was previously excluded from that grouping because the feature required a human driver. Tesla insists its cars aren't fully autonomous and that humans must stay focused at all times.
On Jan. 5, however, the California DMV told Tesla it would "reconsider" the possibility of including the automaker in its self-driving car testing regulations program. They will require Tesla to report all system failures and accidents to the California DMV, and other companies in the program have already been asked to do so.
In a letter to Senator Lena Gonzalez, DMV said: "Tesla's recent software updates, as well as issues with the use of related technologies, public investigations by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, and the opinions of other experts in the field prompted them to re-evaluate. ”
The Beta program is limited, and Tesla only allows drivers with a safety score of 98 or higher to receive exclusive updates, but despite this, there are still some users with such high scores that have not yet been included in the Beta program, as Tesla is still very cautious about its launch. Concerns about certain features of the FSD Beta program have also prompted Tesla to update its test system several times, for example, the October 10.3 FSD version still provides inaccurate and inaccurate collision assistance warnings without threats, and although Tesla has since released an update to fix the bug in less than 24 hours, it still shows the nature of the system's testing.