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Tesla releases supervised Full Self-Driving beta to consumers

Tesla released its Full Self-Driving beta to an undisclosed group of selected consumers, extending machine-controlled driving to city streets while warning that the software could act incorrectly and still required active driver supervision.

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CURRENT ASSESSMENT · REVISION 1
TOWARD DOOM34confidence 94/100

Why it moved the index

A consumer software rollout expanded physical machine control from highways into complex city-street navigation, materially increasing deployment and autonomy exposure. Mandatory attentive supervision, a small initial cohort, and the system's non-autonomous classification constrain magnitude; Reuters, NHTSA, Tesla's support page, and release notes strongly support the facts.

Assessment history

  1. R1
    Toward 34 · confidence 94

    New source-verified October 2020 supervised physical-autonomy rollout absent from the durable corpus.

    11 Aug 2026

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  1. DoomBench assesses “Tesla releases supervised Full Self-Driving beta to consumers” as evidence moving toward doom, with magnitude 34 and confidence 94 out of 100 in the autonomy and agency category.

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