Enhanced Summon: slow-mo driving in parking lots

[strangecosmos]

Apologies if these were already posted somewhere. First videos I’ve seen of Enhanced Summon. (Thanks to @TheTeslaShow for sharing.)

To quote @TheTeslaShow:

“Seems only useful for your own house and or empty late night lots or super low traffic office lots. But with iteration and more use Tesla can certainly crank up the speed.”
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Maybe useful if it’s raining and you don’t want to get wet?

 

[S4WRXTTCS]

They were already posted elsewhere on TMC.

But, neither you or your partner blader venture out of here so I think it's fine to post here.

 

[anthonyj]

Honestly an embarrassment, especially after being delayed for so long. Has no use other than showing your friends a cool trick. Hopefully Tesla can now claim FSD revenue and make Q1 look good. Stock needs a boost.

 

[1375mlm]

Fingers crossed that they’re just making sure directional movement is correct, and can speed it up to at least 5 mph when it hits fleet-wide S & X rollout.

At that speed, you’ll probably be pissing so many drivers off that the last place you want the car to head toward is yourself.

 

[gilscales]

Not .......................one .......................snail .........................was ..........................harmed .......................in .....................the ...................................................................process!

 

[SDRick]

I think they forgot and left the demo vehicles on chill mode before shooting video!

 

[thewishmaster]

I don’t use regular summon (too limited) but this looks like something I might use once in a while when all the conditions line up.

 

[BluestarE3]

Maybe they're using Gary the Snail to calibrate Enhanced Summon?

 

[ord3r]

Yeah everyone is disappointed, but this is a nice step up from the current summon

 

[Krugerrand]

Relax. When it proves to be reliable, they’ll speed it up. You’d all be crying murder if it hit curbs, other vehicles or people. So hush, until it’s had a chance to be used by a larger group of people at various locations iver a period of time.

 

[electronblue]

I think an interesting question is how fast can they make it especially going forward given that it lacks bumper-level camera views around the front and ultrasonics are notoriously noisy and prone to missing certain types of obstacles.

How well and fast can it navigate around curbs for instance without constantly seeing them in the forward third of the car?

 

[strangecosmos]

It’s comically slow... but better safe than sorry. Hope to see steady improvement as they keep developing and testing it.

 

[PaulJohn]

I think an interesting question is how fast can they make it especially going forward given that it lacks bumper-level camera views around the front and ultrasonics are notoriously noisy and prone to missing certain types of obstacles.

How well and fast can it navigate around curbs for instance without constantly seeing them in the forward third of the car?

That’s where the B-pillar cams come into play

 

[electronblue]

That’s where the B-pillar cams come into play

Not really, they can’t see around the front bumper on the curb level.

Tesla will have to anticipate or rely on ultrasonics...

 

[aronth5]

Frankly anyone who doesn't expect major issues with summon in parking lots is kidding themselves since an estimated 20% of all accidents happen in parking lots. The media is going to have a field day reporting on this and Tesla's reputation is going to take a hit.
Tesla is guaranteed to get bad publicity over this and with the continuing delays in rolling out enhanced Summon I suspect Tesla is regretting over hyping it's capabilities.

There making a similar mistake in stating the initial rollout of FSD features will support city driving. Just change "city" to secondary roads and Tesla has appropriately lowered expectations plus it's far more doable. Adding FSD support for driving on relatively simple secondary roads would be a much more reasonable goal then city streets. How about under promise and over deliver for a change since city driving in Boston is not anything I will try initially but using FSD on secondary roads absolutely.
Parking Lot Safety
AAA study: Pedestrian-parking lot accidents on the rise

 

[Soda Popinski]

I think an interesting question is how fast can they make it especially going forward given that it lacks bumper-level camera views around the front and ultrasonics are notoriously noisy and prone to missing certain types of obstacles.

Hopefully, the front camera can identify the curbs when farther and in view, and the system will retain it in the internal map. Unlike cars and people, the curbs should remain in place. I think this is called Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM), which my Neato vaccum cleaner also does.


I wouldn't be surprised if HW3 based Enhanced Summon can increase the speed way over this, and HW2.5 doesn't go much faster.

 

[lunitiks]

Is this geofenced to parking lots or can you do this anywhere?

Can you open the doors while it's doing its thing? (I mean would it stop if you did?)

 

[thewishmaster]

Is this geofenced to parking lots or can you do this anywhere?

Can you open the doors while it's doing its thing? (I mean would it stop if you did?)

Can't wait for the next i1Tesla "What if" video testing all these enhanced summon ideas haha

 

[azred]

What a joke.

I have current version on two cars. The current version frequently cuts out leaving either car stranded half in, half out of garage. That would be a bad thing if this “wonderful” new version cuts out in parking lots.

 

[croman]

Latest video actually looks really good. Like maybe there is a use-case for it.