Awesome, I'll take my car and my dog for a walk and see how it goes. I wish I had a camera OTHER than my phone so I could record the wreck of it going down the cliff off my driveway.
Same thing happens with original Summon but losing connection when the car is half in, half out of garage is obviously less consequential than suddenly disconnecting where other cars are present.
Feel free to wait a couple weeks to see the videos of confrontations in parking lots and please knock off the hostility. I have two Teslas and own some TSLA stock. I am hardly the enemy.
Ok I'll bite. That video is of someone using Smart Summon incorrectly. It says in the release notes that you must keep the car and its surroundings in sight at all times. When used correctly Smart Summon is probably safe but I've seen a bunch of videos of people using it incorrectly. The video with the accident (even though it was probably the other drivers fault) would likely not have happened if the user was properly monitoring the cars surroundings.
That's a very good question! What percentage of parking lot trips end in fender benders? My rough guess is one in ten thousand.
Summing collision and liability, about 12 claims per 100 insured vehicles per year (https://www.iihs.org/media/0394fe9f...arch/Loss fact sheets/Trends_summary_2018.pdf).
I think there would still need to be a way to communicate with pedestrians and cyclists. Probably a speaker instead of a horn though.
Agreed, but if I drove through parking lots like that Tesla driver did I could probably get in an accident that wasn't technically my fault once every 10 minutes. Driving towards reversing cars diagonally from the passenger side is a recipe for disaster.
You just need to practice getting out of summon and into controls quickly so you can honk the horn. But a horn button on the summon page would probably work better.
Are you kidding? Summon is unbelievable. The fact that you could control your car with your iPhone was great to begin with and now it’s another level.
