That was only in reference to the snake charger. He was unequivocal about what wk057 alluded to: "You'll be able to summon the car if you're on private property (you have to be on private property). You can actually summon the car and the car will come to wherever you are."
I guess we both are hearing the video and the words he says differently. Without trying to post a transcript, to my mind, the relevant parts are:
6:47 - Let's look at the various elements of how we are doing autopilot
8:45 - the car can do almost anything. we are able to do lane keeping, automatic cruise control, active emergency breaking, it will self park -- automatic parallel parking or if you are going to go into a garage
9:12 - in fact when you get home you will be able to step out of your car and have it go into your garage including it will open the door and then go in and park itself
9:25 --
then something I'd like to do (in fact many of the engineers are hearing this for the first time).... (emphasis mine)
9:34 -- have the charge connector plug itself in...we'll probably do something like that
9:55 --- and then going a step further, you will be able to summon your car if you're on private property....you could actually summon the car and it will come to wherever you are.
10:31 -- it can actually go a step farther than that which is if you have your calendar turned on, it will meet you there.
So it all goes to how you listen to the remarks. In my experience, presentations like this are carefully worded and prepared (much like Steve Jobs rehearsed and rehearsed and rehearsed what seemed like "off the cuff" product introductions. To my mind:
- at 6:47 he introduces autopilot and points out the various parts of how they have implemented it
- at 8:45 he describes what it can do
- at 9:12 he goes on to say that the car can actually open the garage door and park itself.
*** NOTE: AP1.0 can do everyone of these things
- at 9:25 he says there is something he'd like to do the engineers don't know about yet -- the automated charging snake so you could get out of the car, have it park itself and plug itself in.
- at 9:55 he says "and going a step farther, you will be able to..." To me this is NOT a promise about AP1.0 nor is everything that follows. Rather these are things that he says are on the future product development list for Tesla Autopilot as a program.
Of course when he said this, no one was thinking of AP2.0....we had just heard of AP1.0! To the way I listen to/am interpreting the remarks, everything after 9:25 is something that is not present in autopilot and items that he has placed on the future capabilities list. To me, it actually appears that Elon has delivered on everything he said he would for AP1.0 in that presentation (specifically lane keeping, automatic cruise control, active emergency breaking. automatic parallel parking and the ability to get out of the car before it is in the garage and then have it park itself there). In fact,Tesla has delivered MORE than this list to AP1.0 because he did not mention the ability to change lanes while on autopilot (which it will do if you move the turn signal stalk) nor the ability to do perpendicular parking.
He says he'd like to do the snake and Tesla has demonstrated the snake capability, they just haven't released it to the public for purchase but indications are he intends to release this to superchargers in the future, so let's call that one "in progress".
They he says "going a step farther" and talks about other features. Going a step farther is not defined -- it could mean further development with this hardware, or further development expanding the capabilities of the autopilot program with the next iteration of software or the next iteration of hardware and software. I simply don't read it as a promise that it will come with AP1.0.
To be honest, I hadn't watched this video in over a year and it was a good exercise. For all the recent complaints about autopilot being dumbed down or made useless, it is interesting to note that AP1.0 did achieve all 4 promises (lane keeping, TACC, AEB, auto parallel parking and ability to exit car and have it open the garage door and park itself). And for AP1.0 users, it STILL can do all 4 of those things....
Just my two cents' worth. Obviously others may disagree with how I am interpreting his words....