Don't be. Try some tests to get yourself comfortable. Go to an empty parking lot with well marked spots. Park the car and walk away from it. Then summon it to you. Watch its movements. Then repeat it with a longer distance away. You'll get the feel for it. Then try in a sparsely occupied lot, again starting with a small distance and gradually increasing it.
That's why you start small in an empty lot with full view.
Just go to a parking lot and try it out. You can come back to your thread here and let us know how it turned out.
I can only see one side of the car at a time though even after I get comfortable with it that won’t change
Oh yea I forgot they were coming out with a new smart summon, hope that’s soon
I updated comment, what is ASS do different that supposed to make it much better?Yea, Think Elon said it would be available in the first ½ of 2022.
Not an expert (though I do play one on the Internets) but Smart Summon is its own software stack that was made in circa 2020. It doesn't recognize many objects. For example it can "see" Stop Signs, Pedestrians, some curbs but not too much more BUT can't see things like lane or direction markers, trees, poles, debris, etc. Also it also relies a lot on USS to detect objets.
I see where you're coming from now, with your responses. I will change my recommendation to this: don't use it.
I hope it’s reliable enough that they increase the distance to like 500 feet and don’t rely on you to look at the car
If Tesla ever gets this to the point that you do not need to have eyes on the car at all times, then Tesla will need to assume liability for any damages the car causes. Otherwise, I would not allow my two-ton robot to play in parking lots without direct supervision.
Cameras would help a lot at this point, 4 views of the car wouldn’t need your eyes on the car
I can see the logic there - but I can also see a downside. Humans can only look at one thing at a time, and everything around it blurs out. If you had 4 camera feeds streaming, you could only focus on 1 at a time, moving your eyes around to each of them. You'd likely focus on the rear camera if it's backing up, but you might catch some movement out of the corner of your eye on the left repeater camera, so you stop looking at the back camera and focus on the left repeater. You can see where this is going. Now - take all that into consideration, and you're not paying ANY attention to what's happening with the actual car, you're just focusing on the feeds on your phone. You don't see that [insert object here] or the car turning into your parking lane (at least until the camera feeds spot it), so you may miss important information.
