Tesla Is Finally Updating Its Autopark Feature by The End of This Month

Elon Musk has just announced on Twitter that the Autopilot/AI team at Tesla will be working on Tesla's Smart Summon and Autopark features, as well as its humanoid robot, Optimus.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1572090491050799107

Autopilot is widely used by many Tesla owners worldwide while Autopark and Smart Summon are much lesser-used, due to being "too slow" or "won't detect a parking spot," among other issues. As more car manufacturers are making their own "autopark" systems, many parking features that Autopark lacks such as 360 camera view and better angling for parking are on the road right now. In order to compete with this, Tesla is eager to update their own Autopark system, and it is promising to know that there is a hard deadline for an update by the end of this month. Autopark would certainly be useful for tasks such as backing into parking spaces at Superchargers, and if Tesla has been focusing on it as much as they have on FSD Beta, it may change significantly how many owners decide to use it regularly.

Tesla's AI Day 2022 is at the end of this month, so the new Autopark, Smart Summon, and Tesla Bot progress/features will most likely be announced then.

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[DCGOO]

My old 135i had far superior autopark then the MY. The tesla autopark is slow and dimwitted. A question though does it use any ultrasonic sensors or it all via tesla vision?

I believe it uses both. Vision for sure, because it can detect pasted lines and accurately park between them even if there are no adjacent vehicles. Ultrasonics are used to make sure adjacent vehicles are kept far enough away.

 

[FLMan]

Yes. For sure. Once.

^ ^
So true

A Tesla vehicle using “Smart Summon” appears to crash into a $3.5 million private jet

 

[nero71]

I would love to talk to the team working on these features, I mean smart summon and auto park maybe hard for them to figure out when a basic function like my auto high beam works 100 times better in my ram truck.

 

[MYLRToon]

I would love to talk to the team working on these features, I mean smart summon and auto park maybe hard for them to figure out when a basic function like my auto high beam works 100 times better in my ram truck.

They need to get the matrix headlights sorted the auto high beam is constantly coming on too early and staying on too long.

 

[fiveten]

Both are completely unusable to me - Summon won't go into my garage, even with systems set for 'tight' and autopark is so slow, and it turns the wheel with the car stopped, which drives me nuts.

I absolutely hate how the car will turn its wheels when I try to use regular summon to put my car into my garage. They really need to dumb it down to where it goes in just a straight line all the time.

 

[2101Guy]

Mass software push update coming by midnight tomorrow night, right?

 

[2101Guy]

clock is ticking...

 

[mtndrew1]

Mass software push update coming by midnight tomorrow night, right?

Gonna be fire.

 

[2101Guy]

Tesla owners are charlie brown, Elon is lucy, and the football is ANY promised feature on a timeline by Elon

 

[2101Guy]

Only a few hours left before the new and improved smart summon (thats no longer a "party trick"(c)Elon) arrives via software update!

So excited!

 

[2101Guy]

 

[2101Guy]

less than 5 hours left before the promised big improvement to Smart Summon!

 

[2101Guy]

 

[mtndrew1]

Ew, Elon!

 

[DavidJH]

Don’t hold your breath

 

[2101Guy]

I mean, he did say "DEADLINE". Not "i think"..."possibly"...he said DEADLINE.

 

[2101Guy]

I can’t believe this. Elon always keeps his word on his deadlines. Woe is me

 

[emmz0r]

So end of month came and went,. Where is the update?

 

[SourJellybeans]

By “end of month” he meant September. He didn’t say which year

 

[mtbwalt]

I used autopark on my 2022 MS one time where it miraculously detected a space. It was slow and awkward. It fails to detect 90% of spaces. Telling people to drive close to the row of cars to increase detection likelihood is ludicrous and rarely helps anyway. Maybe if the moon is in the seventh house and Jupiter aligns with Mars.

Much of what Tesla implements is very impressive. Autopark is a total fail in its current iteration. I don’t even think of using it.