All the head start in the world can’t save you when you have Elon Musk as CEO. He decided years ago that sensors like LIDAR and such are expensive and unnecessary, “because people can drive with just their eyes”. So now Teslas rely exclusively on cameras, and have a much harder time figuring out the shape of stuff around them. Can’t add sensors with a software update, so they’ll be behind for a good while more.

This was testing by an independent group that generated their own metrics which were heavily slanted toward driver monitoring rather than automated driving.

It also used out of date Tesla firmware. The specific test in figure 3b of the article used to ‘trick’ a Tesla hasn’t worked for months. The car warns you that using a ‘defeat device’ will result in being unable to use the self-driving feature for the remainder of your drive and will eventually lose you the access to the beta program for FSD.

FSD still is a way to go before it gets released out of beta.