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FSD doesn’t recognize the park lot lines

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FSDb (eg: v11.4.7.3 ) seems confused on marks/lines on parking lot; and it wrongly sees the parking barriers as the road curb (?). This photo shows the roughly routed path (hand drawn on Google map for demonstrating purposes) through a parking lot; and the FSD doesn’t see the parking marks/line as in those next photos.
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The FSD navigated through this parking lot successfully with some scary behaviors:
(a) seeing the parking barrier (concrete bars) as street curb and use them as reference and not running in middle space (instead running on top the parking separation lines).
(b) completely blind on the parking marks/lines and no image of those lines shown in the FSD navigator screen at all.
(c) steered oddly (drunkenness?) for avoiding collision to the parking car as on the last photo; and there is no parking motorbike on screen (not see it ?).

Any ones have some insight whether FSD working on this issue?
 
Routing you through the parking lot is a Nav failure. Even without FSD, the Nav system should not shortcut through parking lots. FSD did the best it could with where it was told to drive, though parking lots is not an advertised behavior.

And not an unusual failure. There are three buildings in my complex on two sides of a dead end street. Google maps and other mapping products direct cars into the dead end and then through the parking lot of one of the buildings to the road on the other side. The other end of the dead-end street leads to a road that becomes one of only 3 bridges connecting our city with the one across the provincial border. When that road backs up due to excess traffic (for instance, a frucker convoy blockading the other 3 bridges) traffic tries to cut through our neighbourhood, creating grid-lock inside our parking lot. All thanks to lousy mapping data.
 
Smart Summon does not work.

Your car is just as likely to wreck as it is to get to you. It's just a "fun trick" and not intended to be useful
I think it was intended to be useful, but was implemented way back when Tesla thought that they had full self driving licked. Sadly, when it turned out to have a lot of issues, they put it on the back burner and gave it few, if any, updates.

It doesn't help that, until Tesla can assume responsibility for any mishaps while using Smart Summon, it's irresponsible to use it unless you can clearly see the car and it's intended path at all times. That's kind of hard to do in anything but the smallest, or emptiest, of parking lots.

This new Reverse Summon is the same. Unless Tesla assumes liability for the car, making it an L4 system with a very small ODD, you cannot safely use the feature.