I think it's spot on that they want the regulators to block them now. Without that there's two options at this point, either they tell all the drivers they're not good enough, i.e. only 100-score ones get FSD for now, or the PR disaster of FSD accidents, extremely likely from the videos on YouTube.
Government stepping in would give all the customer angst an outlet that's not Tesla. Their marketing materials have always blamed the government (see "driver is just there for legal purposes" on tesla.com/autopilot) so this wider release may just be a way of forcing the government to make it true.
Government stepping in would give all the customer angst an outlet that's not Tesla. Their marketing materials have always blamed the government (see "driver is just there for legal purposes" on tesla.com/autopilot) so this wider release may just be a way of forcing the government to make it true.