Tesla Resets Strikes With FSD Beta 10.69.1 |

Tesla CEO Elon Musk said earlier this week that Tesla may reset Full Self-Driving strikes this week.

With the release of FSD Beta 10.69.1 Tesla has done just that.

Users of Full Self-Driving must adhere to a strict safety regimen that Tesla has set out to remain in the program. Currently, Tesla allows three or five strikes, depending on whether you have a vehicle with a cabin camera.

It's been almost nine months since Tesla last reset FSD Beta strikes. Tesla last reset them with version 10.8.1, which was released in January of this year.

A strike is issued if the system detects the driver isn’t paying attention. For example, a driver could receive a strike for being distracted, not looking at the road, looking at the display for too long, or looking at their phone while the car is mobile.

Tesla FSD Beta tester and Twitter user @jonbbc asked Musk if a reset of the strikes could be issued so he can share the progress Tesla is making on FSD to riders in his Uber.

“Tesla #FSDBeta changed my life,” he writes. “I waited 2.5 yrs. before I could use it. My mission is to spread the good word about FSD to everyone in Chicago through future Uber drives. A strike reset is necessary to do this!”

Musk responded with, “Hopefully, this week.”

Many Tesla owners have forked over thousands of dollars to use FSD, but they're stuck with Tesla’s tedious Safety Score. There's no word yet whether Tesla is increasing the numbers of testers with beta 10.69.2, but Tesla remains committed to rolling out FSD Beta to everyone in North America by the end of the year.

Tesla rolled out beta 10.69 last week, and owners who have been suspended, have been looking forward to this strike reset so that they could put beta 10.69.1 or 10.69.2 through the wringer when it becomes available.

FSD Beta 10.69.1 started rolling out to employees last night, and is now being sent to the 1,000 owners who are on beta 10.69 soon.

A wider release is anticipated to go out Wednesday or Thursday to 10,000 more beta testers, with 10.69.2 going to all beta testers sometime next week.

FSD Beta 10.69.1 is largely a bug fix release, but Tesla has merged in the 2022.20 update features, so testers who update from beta 10.12.2 will receive all the features in the 2022.16 updates and the 2022.20 updates.

According to Twitter user @ChrisZheng001, who has ties with the Tesla supply chain in China, the Model 3 and Model Y will be receiving a new steering wheel for the 2023 model year.

The new steering wheel will supposedly follow what has already been done with the new Model S; replacing the steering wheel stalks with touch-sensitive buttons on the steering wheel.

In a Model 3 or Model Y, the left stalk is mainly used for the vehicle's turn signals, but it can also be used to activate or flash the car's high beams. The button at the end of the stalk brings up the windshield wiper controls and wipes the windshield a single time.

As for the right stalk, it's used to shift gears, enable Autopilot and put the vehicle into park. The button can also be used to enable the vehicle's emergency brake by holding it down.

In the Model S, which the Model 3 and Model Y are likely to mimic, these functions are moved to the steering wheel and the touch screen.

The steering wheel will likely be similar to the one in the Model S. However, it'll likely be round since a major advantage of having a yoke steering wheel is to have a better view of the instrument cluster.

The upcoming steering wheel may be the one that's featured in the new Tesla Semi photos.

Like the Model S, the touch-sensitive buttons wrap around the outside of the scroll wheels on the steering wheel.

On the left side, you have the turn signals and high beam buttons, while on the right you have buttons for the windshield wipers and voice commands. On the Model 3, clicking the right scroll wheel starts a voice command, but in the Model S that's used to engage Autopilot.

There is also a button for the horn, however, unlike earlier versions of the Model S, the center of the steering wheel also functions as a horn.

Other functions that were previously available on the steering wheel stalks, such as shifting gears are moved to the center touch screen.

Since the buttons and their designs are fixed, you can't customize these buttons nor can Tesla change them through software updates.

I'd love to have seen tiny OLED screens for these buttons, similar to the Optimus keyboard that has a tiny screen for each key. That would leave room for customization or change down the road, although it would come at a cost and introduce additional complexity. Two things Tesla tries hard to reduce.

In the summer of 2021, Elon Musk said that auto shift was coming to all Tesla models, so Tesla may have been planning this change for a while now.

It's not clear whether existing vehicles with steering wheel stalks will also gain the ability to swipe to shift, but it's possible since Tesla could use the existing steering wheel stalks as a backup solution if the touch screen isn't working.

The backup solution in the Model S and likely future Model 3s and Model Ys are touch-sensitive gear buttons that appear underneath the wireless phone charger if the touch screen becomes unresponsive.

This upcoming change may be unexpected, but it's not surprising, as Tesla often tries to reduce costs by simplifying designs and processes. Tesla also tries to reuse as many parts throughout their models as possible. While the Model S and Model X use a different steering wheel, it looks like the Semi may utilize the same steering wheel as the Model 3 and Model Y.

Tesla is set to release FSD Beta 10.69.1 tonight. Beta 10.69.1 is expected to be largely bug fixes, but it looks like it will go out to a wider pool than 10.69.

Tesla released the much-anticipated beta, version 10.69 to 1,000 beta testers late on August 20th.

Since then we've seen numerous videos of the beta in action. With so many changes in a release, some regressions are expected as well, which is why Tesla is being a little more cautious with this release.

Last night Elon Musk revealed some additional details on the next release. He spoke about who will receive the next update, which appears to indicate that the beta is still on track for tonight. In his tweet, he said that 10.69.1 will only be available to the existing testers on version 10.69, at least initially.

If there are no major issues found with the release, then Tesla will release it to another 10,000 testers, or roughly 10% of Tesla's current FSD Beta pool after a few days.

If you were one of the first 10,000 beta testers in the US, then there's a possibility you'll get the latest beta this week, however, there's no way of knowing whether Tesla will go out to testers in order.

Most beta testers in the US and Canada will not receive 10.69.1 and instead receive the next version, beta 10.69.2

That beta is expected to be a more stable build and go into "wide release," which is expected to include all current FSD Beta testers.

Elon mentioned that 10.69.2 will "hopefully" go out next week.

If you're currently enrolled in Tesla's Safety Score in hopes of getting into the FSD Beta program, there may be a chance Tesla increases the beta pool after 10.69.2 is rolled out, but I wouldn't expect that to happen before all current testers have received the latest beta and Tesla feels that the beta is performing well.

The last time Tesla added additional beta testers, they include owners with a Safety Score of 95 or higher, however, there were also reports of some users receiving it with lower scores.

If you haven't been following the FSD Beta 10.69 release, you can view the release notes.

Update: Tesla has now released FSD Beta 10.69.1.

View the release notes for the upcoming version 2022.24.6.

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