Here's your Forbes Daily Briefing for Wednesday, September 24th.

Today on Forbes, Tesla's full self-driving software is a mess. Should it be legal?

Elon Musk relentlessly promotes Tesla as a major player in autonomous driving, both in the

robo-taxie market and for personally owned vehicles that are

based on its full self-driving system, known as FSD.

His draw-dropping $1 trillion pay package includes getting 1 million Tesla Robotaxies on the road

and 10 million active FSD users over the next decade, so their success directly benefits him

financially. Whether that's achievable remains to be seen, but an assessment by Forbes of the

latest version of FSD found that it remains error-prone. During a 90-minute test drive in Los Angeles,

in residential neighborhoods and freeways,

the 2024 Model Y, with Tesla's latest hardware and software, hardware 4, FSD version 13.2.9,

ignored some standard traffic signs and posted speed limits. It didn't slow down at a pedestrian crossing with a flashing sign and people present, and it made pointless lane changes and accelerated at odd times,

such as while exiting a crowded freeway with a red light at the end of the ramp.

There's also no indication the company has fixed a worrisome glitch identified two years ago,

stopping for a flashing school bus sign indicating that children may be about to cross the street.

In fact, there are so many easy to find problems with the feature,

recently redubbed, quote, full self-driving, parentheses supervised,

it raises a question,

why is the $8,000 feature, which also requires a

$99 a month subscription, even legal in its current form? Turns out there's a simple answer.

Missy Cummings, a George Mason University professor and AI expert, who has advised the National

Highway Traffic Safety Administration

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