Tesla Introduces The Safety Score

Willi Wiedergold
3 min readSep 26, 2021

Innovation is an invention, that has or is going to be adopted.

Tesla has been consistently updating the completely rewritten Full-Self-Driving software in private beta based on the feedback of the 2000 beta testers. There are tons of videos on the internet, and it is impressive to see the progress Tesla made within a few months and this limited amount of feedback.

The FSD-Beta-Button opened the gates for other customers to join the beta program. With the opening of the beta, Tesla introduced the Safety Score.

Source: https://www.tesla.com/support/safety-score

The Safety Score is a way of telling customers how good they are at driving. Many people will be disappointed to learn that they suck at driving. It will reveal irresponsible driving behaviour, which is a form of feedback that many drivers never had in their life. The introduction of the Safety Score has some massive implications for Tesla’s further mission.

Implication #1 — Free Advertisement

Tesla provides an incentive to safe drivers by giving them early access to the latest version of their FSD-Software. This is a great way to strengthen the relationship with customers, and you can be sure that those people…

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Willi Wiedergold

Product Lead & Investor in the Creator Space. Writing about the Creator Economy, Product Management and Investing. More on https://twitter.com/WWiedergold