According to Dan O'Dowd, Tesla puts software that isn't even up to Beta standards on out public roads. Mr. O'Dowd has seen the code as part of negotiations with Musk. Musk agreed to stop doing that but reneged, just like he does with all his agreements, so the negotiations failed. Mr. Dowd felt he could not risk the reputational damage.
According to Dan O'Dowd, Tesla puts software that isn't even up to Beta standards on out public roads. Mr. O'Dowd has seen the code as part of negotiations with Musk. Musk agreed to stop doing that but reneged, just like he does with all his agreements, so the negotiations failed. Mr. Dowd felt he could not risk the reputational damage.
There's no definitive meaning to terms like "beta standards". Every company gets to make it up as it goes. With many software companies, "alpha" means a trial release with only internal distribution, whereas "beta" refers to a trial release given to those customers who have indicated that they are willing to work with trial software, understanding that it almost certainly has bugs but also has functionality that they want to try out. The alpha/beta terminology usually refers to the extent of distribution, and the quality only indirectly. Even when the customers acknowledge the conditions under which the beta is provided, they still complain when things don't go well. Such is life.
Mr. O'Dowd did not take on the expense of gubernatorial race whose only purpose is a public awareness program because of different views of what beta means . When I said "not even up to Beta standards," I was talking about Alpha. I was trying to be comprehensible to laypersons who might think Alpha is better than Beta.
According to Dan O'Dowd, Tesla puts software that isn't even up to Beta standards on out public roads. Mr. O'Dowd has seen the code as part of negotiations with Musk. Musk agreed to stop doing that but reneged, just like he does with all his agreements, so the negotiations failed. Mr. Dowd felt he could not risk the reputational damage.
There's no definitive meaning to terms like "beta standards". Every company gets to make it up as it goes. With many software companies, "alpha" means a trial release with only internal distribution, whereas "beta" refers to a trial release given to those customers who have indicated that they are willing to work with trial software, understanding that it almost certainly has bugs but also has functionality that they want to try out. The alpha/beta terminology usually refers to the extent of distribution, and the quality only indirectly. Even when the customers acknowledge the conditions under which the beta is provided, they still complain when things don't go well. Such is life.
Mr. O'Dowd did not take on the expense of gubernatorial race whose only purpose is a public awareness program because of different views of what beta means . When I said "not even up to Beta standards," I was talking about Alpha. I was trying to be comprehensible to laypersons who might think Alpha is better than Beta.