So is there any information that I'm not seeing about getting into the FSD beta? I know a SS of 91+, set follow to max (though it still tags you when people go around you and merge in front of you so really irrelevant), don't use autopilot at lights as it sometimes ask to take control, dinging you, and put chill mode on. Any other pointers or info on getting in? Thanks in advance.
As others have stated, the door to FSD doesn’t seem to be open right now no matter your SS, and based on Musk’s tweets, the next opening will just be the flood gates of FSDb wide release to all that have purchased or subscribe to FSD Capability package.
With that said, getting/keeping a high score is possible, and people have various anecdotal reasons for why they don’t believe Tesla, but many of us have successfully achieved/kept a SS of 100 by just following Tesla’s own instructions:
Safety Score Beta. Namely, “Driving on Autopilot (including 3 seconds after Autopilot is disengaged) will not be factored into the Safety Score formula, but the miles driven while on Autopilot are included in the total.” That’s a straight quote from Tesla linked above and many of our experiences confirm it’s true. I had many people cut between while on a highway but in AP, or AP braked hard, etc. and no dings happened. That’s how I got and kept a SS of 100 and got into the first batch while driving like a grandpa for 2 weeks. Also, unless they changed it, the minimum requirement was 100 miles over 7 days. The 30 days number is just how SS is calculated (i.e. - dings and accumulated miles from 31 days ago are no longer used to calculate your SS), no matter if you’re opted in for FSDb or not (like for those that are opted into SS to affect their Tesla Insurance premiums).
From those instructions, a few tips are logically implied:
1) When safe and confident in the environment, use AP whenever possible. This prevents so many dings from affecting you.
2) Chill mode doesn’t matter because forward acceleration doesn’t matter, just backward and lateral acceleration. Perhaps using chill mode would help avoid unnecessarily quickly getting to a speed that would result in “hard braking” or “aggressive turning” of the 5 Safety Factors, but otherwise this shouldn’t change much.
3) Set follow to minimum, that way you’ll hear FCW alerts more often and at the slightest sign of one. SS uses medium/average, so if you’re hearing the alerts more often then you’ll adjust before a ding is actually applied to your SS.
4) As others have stated, more miles in a day weights that day’s score more, so if you’re on a highway while following someone about 2 seconds behind (SS uses 1-3 seconds following distance), and no one is in adjacent lanes that might change lanes to cut in between you and the vehicle you’re following, disengage AP and drive manually to rack up miles that will be used to bring up your SS. As adjacent lanes traffic approached from behind or was passed by the vehicle I was following, I found myself re-engaging AP to prevent any cutting in between dings, then disengaging AP again when the environment was “safe from SS dingers”.
5) When I had a ding/bad SS drive, I’d go for a drive in the evening or wherever/whenever there was less traffic on the highway to find a vehicle to follow manually using the tip above. Note: while driving on the highway looking for a vehicle to follow, use AP a lot to avoid other dings from counting against you.