A new version of Tesla’s Enhanced Summon is expected to be delivered this week to Early Access Program members, Chief Executive Elon Musk said in tweet. Third revision of Enhanced Summon hopefully going to Tesla owners with early access later this week— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 24, 2019 Enhanced Summon enables Tesla owners to operate... READ FULL ARTICLE
The title of this blog post is misleading. "Rolling out" without including "to EAP, so it's kind of irrelevant and not newsworthy" is inaccurate.
Progress for those who got it but not for those who are left out. I bought FSD since 2017 and I still have not got a hold of any of its versions even though I was promised that we would be Early Program Access for buying FSD prior to March 2019.
His recent comment about it being difficult getting the cameras to recognize various shades of gray as a curb or boundary sounds like an argument for LiDAR (or at least that LiDAR would be an expensive shortcut until vision is refined). But for summon, I'd expect the sonar proximity sensors to be sufficient since we're usually dealing with low speeds and close distances. Is the problem, then, detecting curbs for longer distance route planning as in getting into and out of parking garages? I admit that is sometimes difficult for humans, too.
Tesla was promising something very similar "Real Soon Now" when we bought our car in 2015 as long as you were on private property. Not so much delivered though.
Yes, Autopilot 1 ”meet you at the curb”. This is what Tesla adverised in 2015, never happened of course. In fact hasn’t shipped even for AP2+ yet. Neither did any of that ”automatic garage door opening at calendar time” happen. Tesla was also supposed to ship a Navigate on Autopilot like feature for Autopilot 1 at the end of 2016. Tesla 2015: Tesla, September 2016 (a month before AP2 launch that is) — this 8.1 firmware was said to come out in December 2016 (never did, Tesla eventually shipped a completely different ”8.1” without it and any of the features announced for 8.1 prior):