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Blog Tesla Vehicles Will Drop Off Owners, Park Themselves

Discussion in 'Autopilot & Autonomous/FSD' started by TMC Staff, Apr 16, 2020.

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    Tesla plans to roll out a “reverse smart summon” that would enable vehicles to drop off owners and park without a driver. The automaker currently provides a feature for the vehicle to leave a parking space and find the owner, but the expanded feature would eliminate the need for an owner to search for parking or...
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    If Tesla can pull this off right, This will be my favorite feature thus far. I wonder about the constraints. Will it be the same as smart summon? Will I have to watch it park?
     
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    They haven’t really delivered on almost any one of the promises so far, so i’m not that hopeful on this one either. I guess not even Elon can win every battle, but just the ones he chooses to focus on (rockets).
     
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    Well except that promise to bring electric vehicles to the masses.... ;-)

     
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    If it works as well as Smart Summon, it will text me from the third town over telling me it still can't find a spot.
     
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    It will just ring the most annoying ringtone on your phone constantly at max volume until you come park it yourself. And if you ignore the ring, park in the 1st no-parking tow away zone to teach you a lesson. It does have AI and it's feelings are easily hurt.
     
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    You're saying it's the intelligence that's artificial, but the feelings are real? This sounds familiar.
     
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    Probably requires you to be 20' from the car, be in sight at all times and owner is fully responsible.
     
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    He hasn't made any promises. He just tells people what he wants to do, and they interpret that as a promise. It isn't. If he didn't aim higher than anyone else, though, we wouldn't have electric cars this good.

    If he had only focused on rockets, we wouldn't have Fremont or Gigafactory. Personally I like my new Model S and my wifey's 3, especially since I don't take rockets very often.
     
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    I wonder what it'll do if it makes the wrong turn and goes towards the street. Will it reverse or will it go in the street, do a u-turn, and try again (hah)?
     
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    Will it go and get the pay and display parking ticket and affix it on the windscreen too :D
     
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    Maybe there is some truth in this, but what is a promise to you if not a signed piece of paper (your purchase contract) that says your car will have something named ’full self driving’?
     
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    Unless the feature is FCS, you are just a beta tester. And why would I want to be liable using a feature that Tesla would not guarantee to not damage properties and/or hurt lives?

    With autopilot, you can override. How do you override a feature that you are not in sight of? Does that mean Tesla will Livestream dashcam mode on your phone to override?
     
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    I haven't found the auto-park feature to work reliably with me in the car, so I'm not expecting this to happen any time soon.
     
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    I'm too afraid the car will announce "I'll be back!" and go about hunting for yet another sarah connor.

    probably won't happen, but I'm not willing to take that chance.
     
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    Unless it promises to bring her back to me... ;)
     

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