Tao Lin: Tesla employees buy cars at the same price as customers to open the FSD function for free

On October 26, Tesla CEO Elon Musk posted on Weibo that the car sold to Hertz was without discounts, the same price as its consumers. On the morning of October 27, Tao Lin, vice president of Tesla's external affairs, forwarded the Weibo and said that employees buy cars at the same price as customers, but they can open the FSD function for free, welcome to join Tesla.

Yesterday, Hertz Car Rental announced that it had ordered 100,000 electric vehicles from Tesla and planned to start renting them in major U.S. markets and parts of Europe from November. It is understood that the electric vehicle order value is 4.2 billion US dollars.

From the Tesla China official website, it can be understood that Tesla China provides two paid autopilot optional packages with enhanced automatic driving function and full autopilot capability, which are priced at 32,000 and 64,000 respectively, while the basic version of Autopilot (BAP) is free for all models. Among them, the enhanced version of automatic assisted driving functions include: automatic assisted navigation driving, automatic auxiliary lane change, intelligent summoning, automatic parking and other functions, fully automatic driving capabilities include: active cruise control, auxiliary steering, automatic auxiliary lane change, automatic assisted navigation driving, automatic parking, intelligent summoning, identify traffic lights and stop signs and react to assisted driving in urban streets.

Vehicles have an "automatic driving" function, which can indeed bring a lot of convenience in daily driving, which can reduce the driving burden of drivers to a certain extent. However, from the current point of view, the safety and reliability of "automatic driving" is not very high, for some complex road situations, the computer has not been as timely as the human brain.com. Although the current technology research and development has reached a certain height, but there are still many years to go before the computer replaces the human brain, and it is obviously unrealistic to want to achieve "full automatic driving" in a few years. Tesla is also under investigation by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration because of its self-driving capabilities. On August 16, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said it would launch a formal investigation into 11 previous traffic accidents at Tesla caused by the use of autopilot assistance systems.

It is worth noting that on October 24, Tesla officially pushed the "full automatic driving" software beta version FSD Beta 10.3 to some riders. However, as test drivers complained about the system issuing fake crash alerts and other errors, Tesla Musk announced a temporary withdrawal of the upgraded version. Musk tweeted: "Tesla found some issues in FSD Beta 10.3, so it temporarily reverted to version 10.2. Note that this is to be expected in beta software, after all, it is not possible to test all hardware configurations under all conditions, so we need to test publicly. Foreign media The Verge said that FSD Beta 10.3 may have two problems. It is possible that this version of the software will issue a collision warning before the error. Secondly, the automatic steering option was eliminated, and the traffic perception cruise control system may have some problems after the update. In addition, it also said that Tesla's FSD system can not make the vehicle fully autonomous, the system still needs manual supervision, can not be called a car that can fully autonomously drive.