By "themselves" do you mean Elon Musk? I wasn't under the impression that Tesla was much of a collaborative environment. Musk bans Kanban and Toyota Production System principles after all.
But look at all the models in production. They don't have discrete model years, they're pushing out new updates all the time, even for hardware.
https://www.notateslaapp.com/news/1224/tesla-model-y-receive...
> Teslas on non-highways with Full Self Driving (FSD) engaged had just 0.31 accidents per million miles representing an 80% reduction in accidents compared with the average vehicle.
https://thedriven.io/2023/04/27/accident-rate-for-tesla-80-l...
Almost like they hide that information like how they demand NHTSA redact all pertinent information from the NHTSA SGO database of ADAS crashes [2] so that the public can not fact check them.
Or like how their telemetry just happened to miss 90% of their confirmed fatal crashes which we only know about due to third party investigations as seen in the NHTSA SGO database.
Or maybe like how around 50% of the crashes Tesla investigates are fatal, but they just choose to leave ~95% uninvestigated as seen in the NHTSA SGO database. They are just worried investigating the crashes they caused will show FSD is too safe.
That report and Tesla’s reporting around FSD are gross, criminal malpractice. Only a sociopathic executive team and company culture would encourage safety reporting that intentionally deceptive.
[1] https://www.tesla.com/VehicleSafetyReport
[2] https://www.nhtsa.gov/laws-regulations/standing-general-orde...
But the first link I posted came from the insurance industry, not from Tesla.