Although Tesla's promotional video has been making a lot of noise recently, it has not affected the promotion of FSD Beta.
According to the latest news, Tesla is hiring a new position - self-driving safety officer, the kind that Robotaxi cannot do without, and the kind that sits in the driver's seat ready to take over at any time.
From the perspective of job requirements, this recruitment is mainly to prepare for the launch of FSD Beta in Europe. However, European policies are more cautious, not allowing Tesla to push directly to car owners like the United States and Canada, so that owners are obliged to act as "safety officers" for the test version.
This change also means that Tesla went around in circles and finally had to land FSD through the Waymo route.
For the sake of safety and reliability, and more importantly, compliance, Tesla has no other choice, and most likely in China.
The only difference is that the Tesla FSD beta version has more than 100,000 users in North America, and if you count these owners who participated in the public test, Tesla will become the company with the most automatic driving safety personnel in the world, and the company with the largest road test of self-driving models.
However, new questions also arise, since Europe has begun to recruit specialized autonomous driving safety officers, will North American car owners be willing to continue to "volunteer dedication"?
Tesla's new position: Autopilot safety officer
According to the official website, Tesla is recruiting ADAS Test Operators in Switzerland, Finland and Denmark, regardless of gender.
ADAS test operators are required to identify areas for improvement in software iterations, be responsible for regression testing, and test vehicles on public roads, test tracks, and proving grounds.
The work is as follows:
Use the perspective scenario of Autopilot testing to investigate the local area and design test routes.
USE TOOLS SUCH AS XRAY TO DESIGN TEST SPECIFICATIONS AND CREATE JUDGMENT CRITERIA.
Research and familiarize yourself with the latest Autopilot version and other related vehicle features.
Perform real-world testing according to specifications and provide temporary support for specifically requested scenarios.
Use proprietary software designed in-house by Tesla to analyze test data, classify software issues, and vehicle anomalous behavior.
Communicate with developers and test engineers, and be available to ask questions or comments if necessary.
Maintain and document the condition of test vehicles and coordinate repairs or modifications if necessary.
Support for any other vehicle engineering testing as required.
Simply put, this recruitment is to test the safety of Tesla's assisted driving system.
As for the goal, Tesla writes "achieve full self-driving."
On the one hand, this means that Tesla is laying the foundation for the FSD Beta landing in Europe.
On the other hand, isn't the recruitment of safety officers a new position opened up by Google Waymo when opening up autonomous driving? The safety officer is also one of the most important signs on Waymo's route.
Tesla landed FSD and embarked on Waymo mode
Regarding the large-scale implementation of autonomous driving, the two well-known routes in the field are Waymo and Tesla.
The Tesla route, that is, the mass production automatic driving route, is to apply automatic driving on the production vehicle first, and achieve L4-level functions through a large number of software updates and iterations with the help of the owner's use and human-machine co-driving mode.
At the heart of this is shadow mode.
When the user is driving a Tesla car, the system does not participate in the vehicle control, but the algorithm will always make simulated decisions in the background and compare it with user behavior.
If the algorithm's simulated decisions and user behavior are inconsistent, the system uploads data to help engineers improve the algorithm.
For example, when driving, the owner steps on the brakes, and the system feels that there is no need to press the brakes here, and this scene will be recorded by the data, uploaded to the background, and re-learned and iterated.
In other words, every Tesla owner who uses an assisted driving system is not only paying the company, but also working as a free safety officer for the company.
The Waymo route is to invest a lot of manpower and material resources to prepare the fleet and test safety personnel before the large-scale landing, and conduct a large number of actual road tests.
To put it more bluntly, the Tesla route can upgrade the algorithm while selling cars to ensure revenue, while the Waymo route needs to burn money until it can be commercialized.
In the Waymo route, although safety is supreme, behind each expansion of scale and area is the exponential increase of various costs including safety officers, so with the advancement of scale, the challenges encountered by Waymo routes are becoming more and more severe, and because it is impossible to remove safety personnel for a while, the business model cannot achieve a closed loop...
That's why Waymo's valuation is shrinking, commercialization is slow, and layoffs are underway, while Tesla is able to make strides.
But now, new challenges have come.
In European and Chinese regulations, as an assisted driving, it is possible to drive together with a human machine; As "fully autonomous driving", it is necessary to take the potential accident responsibility from the owner, which means that once the car manufacturer claims automatic driving, it must provide safe and reliable automatic driving capabilities, and cannot drive automatically in advance and assist driving afterwards.
Although the shadow mode can help Tesla reduce costs and achieve mass production in advance, there is really no way to pack tickets for the shadow mode to truly achieve a fully autonomous driving transition.
And in today's situation, Musk faces a dilemma:
If FSD cannot be implemented in the two major markets of Europe and China, the competitiveness of products will be weakened;
However, the landing of FSD in Europe and China, according to local regulations, cannot be a "test" version of the product like North America.
So in this dilemma, the choice of safety officers on Waymo's route is a practical solution.
Through the automatic driving safety officer, Tesla FSD can open the road test in the above areas, and can realize the learning, training and iteration of the road condition data of these scenarios.
In addition, with the improvement of FSD capabilities, when officially landing FSD in Europe and China, it can also explain the reliability and safety of relevant departments and regulations.
After all, in China, Robotaxi already has a complete set of testing and regulatory guarantees, and before Xpeng G9, it also passed the Robotaxi exam as a mass-produced car, which almost refers to the landing access of higher-end intelligent driving.
Therefore, the recruitment of self-driving safety officers, for Musk, basically has no choice.
When can European car owners use it?
Tesla's launch of FSD Beta in Europe is actually one of many pies drawn by Musk.
At last year's AI Day, Musk promised to launch FSD Beta in various regions of the world, which is still only available in North America.
In addition to this open recruitment of security officers, Tesla has been secretly testing FSD Beta in Europe for more than a year.
And sources revealed that there were no accidents during the tests.
Most critically, to launch the FSD Beta system in Europe, Tesla must pass regulatory approval.
For example, the European Union's General Safety Regulation restricts the scenarios in which the autonomous driving system is activated and the maximum speed of the vehicle.
Regulations and guidelines developed by the United World Forum for Harmonization of Vehicle Regulations (WP.29) are also applied in Europe.
That is to say, even if Tesla can try to solve the long-tail problem under various open road conditions in European road tests, it is still unknown when European users can use FSD Beta.
The good news is that Mercedes-Benz's L3 system has been approved in Europe, and the United States has also given road clearance.
If you still exchange courtesy, Tesla FSD's landing in Europe should not be too far away.
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