A couple months down the road, a "huge update" later, and I would still say no way, not at the current price. It's $6k right now for AP to do some lane changes and a party trick that only works when the parking lot is pretty empty.
If it was $2000 to MAYBE $3000 and you did a decent amount of long distance driving then I would say maybe.
It would be nice to have auto lane change, or even assisted lane change where the nav shows you what lane to get in and AP remains active as long as you make the lane change when first using the turn signal. Summon isn't prime time yet, I don't care what word they put in front of it on the promo sheet. I have yet to see it handle a parking lot with people walking around it (either partly sticking into the aisle while loading from a cart into a trunk, or walking up or down the aisle), cars going up or down the aisle, and cross traffic. If the car just defaults to stopping until a person or car passes by, even if there is enough room for a human driver to get by, that isn't very smart. It might err on the side of being safe, which is good, but what if you have a person and three cars turning up the aisle and a couple cars behind your Tesla when it just stops and decides to panic and wait for 45 seconds or so while everyone goes by it. Your laziness is now causing the cars behind the Tesla to wait for no reason, maybe think you stopped and decide to pass, which will freak out the Tesla more...
What about cross traffic? Will it nose it's way out a few feet and then stop because it sees cross traffic? Well what if it's a somewhat steady stream (say 6 to 8 cars) and your Tesla is now half way into the cross aisle and blocking anyone else until the cars go by. Yes that might occasionally happen with humans, but normally we turn our head and look to see if it's clear long enough to get fully out into the cross aisle instead of inching out until we sense something a few feet away...
Show me summon handle that and I'll say it's worth it if you've got a couple little kids that you might not want to parade through a busy parking lot, or live somewhere with very cold winter temps or poorly cleared parking lots and you're worried about slipping. Then it's useful and ups the safety (saves you from slipping on ice/snow or potentially having a kid get hit by someone not paying attention when backing out, etc).
Right now I think in a tight and busy shopping center parking lot it could take 5 to 10 minutes to get the car to you, and then it'll probably show up to your point with nose in at you while blocking lanes. It's not a valet going to get the car and pulling up right next to the curb so you just step in the door. $6,000 for that and lane changes? Nope. Not worth it.
We were supposed to have city street AP by now, which I'll be surprised if we see before the end of 2019. Even then I would worry about how well it works at intersections, stop signs, school zones where you legally need to stop to allow someone to cross if they're waiting at the cross walk, etc for the next year.
Price the features it has now. Maybe $1500 for Nav on AP and $1500 on Smart Summon. Packaged together for $2,000. When Nav on City streets comes out it's another $1500 add on. When FSD with hands off the wheel rolls out it's another $2000 or something.
What happens if the car gets totaled? Is FSD on the account level, or car level? Will an insurance company pay out to cover the $6k FSD, or are they looking at the value of the physical car and paying out that much? If you have a kid or two and trade in the car in two years for a Model Y, does FSD follow you?
To many ways to toss away that $6k before you ever see any use from it...
