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Sometimes I like a little irreverence in my journalism instead of the constant stream of death and suffering

Yeah my dude, but that’s not the part I’m disagreeing with. You made one false claim and one true one, and I’m pointing out that the false one is false.

Inside EVs article:

Any Tesla Driver Can Now Join Full Self-Driving Beta Regardless Of Safety Score

Tweet from Elon dated November 24, 2022:

Tesla Full Self-Driving Beta is now available to anyone in North America who requests it from the car screen, assuming you have bought this option.

That’s not true. It’s been open to anyone who requests it for many months

I left after 2 months. Their network has the same coverage as ATT & T-Mobile combined, which is awesome…
BUT
Their use of those towers is deprioritized. Which means all their requests get sent to the bottom of the queue. If there aren’t a lot of people around, no problem! If you live in a metro area, you wait so long to connect that it’s basically like you don’t have service. It worked great on road trips but was unusable for 90% of my use case.

I think a lot of the providers with discount prices do the same. A cursory internet search tells me Mint does too, but that they only use T-Mobile’s towers. So if you switch, your coverage might be better but your data connection times might be worse. Or maybe ATT just sees heavy use in my area, and you’d be fine.

I’m in Atlanta, fwiw. Not exactly inside midtown/downtown, but within the perimeter of 285, so still fairly close to city center.

That’s…already the price for Boost Infinite, without any tie to Amazon membership. Ask me how I know.