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Steven Loveday

Tesla Employee / FSD Beta Tester Reportedly Fired, Conflict Of Interest

If you follow Tesla's Full Self-Driving Beta system, as well as the videos produced by various FSD Beta testers, you may be aware of the YouTube channel AI Addict. It's run by former Tesla employee Jon Bernal, who's been making in-depth FSD Beta testing videos for some time now. His videos have been widely shared, especially when they reveal major issues with the system.

Bernal's most recent video, which is embedded above, opens with an explanation about why he no longer works for Tesla. You can call us naive or simply unaware, but we had no idea Bernal worked for Tesla in the first place, which is obviously part of the problem here.

The AI Addict YouTube channel offers many FSD Beta test videos of various types, though the focus is primarily on what Bernal calls "stress tests." He puts his car through the paces to see how it performs, and the difficult situations often lead to many issues, interventions, and disengagements. Bernal says his hope is to expose safety issues to help Tesla improve the system.

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