Elon Musk says Tesla’s latest version of self-driving software ‘not great’

Tesla CEO Elon Musk tweeted on Monday that the newest iteration of the company's experimental driver aid software, FSD Beta 9.2, was "actually not great."

“FSD Beta 9.2 is actually not great imo, but Autopilot/AI team is rallying to improve as fast as possible,” Musk wrote. “We’re trying to have a single stack for both highway & city streets, but it requires massive NN retraining.”

In the United States, the firm provides a Full Self-Driving Capability (or FSD) package for $10,000, or $199 per month. This premium driver assistance technology does not make Tesla electric vehicles safe to drive without a skilled driver at the wheel.

Tesla has lately been under criticism from US safety officials, who launched an inquiry into its driver assistance system following accidents in which its vehicles collided with stopped police cars and fire trucks.

Two U.S. senators wrote to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to open an investigation against Tesla Inc, saying the carmaker has misled consumers and endangered the public by advertising its drivers’ assistance systems as fully self-driving.

In June, the vehicle safety regulators said it has opened 30 probes since 2016 against the carmaker, where it suspected the use of advanced driver assistance systems during crashes.

Elon Musk, who has almost 60 million Twitter followers, regularly uses the word FSD to refer to the Tesla feature package, but many consumers interpret it to imply completely autonomous driving.

Musk has boasted about the technology's safety benefits and claimed that Tesla vehicles will soon be self-driving, but he has repeatedly missed deadlines.