And THIS Is What Tesla Calls Smart Summons? You Be The Judge

Tesla has been criticized in the past for having its owners essentially beta test ais dvanced semi-autonomous driving functions on public roads, and the exact same argument has been made for the recently-introduced ‘Smart Summon’ feature.

The function, rolled out officially in late September, allows owners to operate their Tesla through a smartphone as long as they are within a few hundred feet of it.

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Truthy - 10/29/2019 12:11:38 PM

+11 Boost

Yet the Elon fanboys will somehow blame the owner and defend the indefensible, that this system is nowhere near ready for public rollout.

JRobUSC - 10/29/2019 12:14:52 PM

+8 Boost

well that answers one of my myriad questions about this feature - whether the car would just make a beeline straight towards you in a parking lot, regardless of what obstacles might be between you, or if it could somehow navigate it's way around cars, parking blocks, a pond, unmarked "lanes" in the parking lot aisles, etc.

SanJoseDriver - 11/4/2019 5:02:10 AM

+1 Boost

Out of the million+ summons there were 4 or 5 accidents, how many do you think a human would get over ~500 years or driving.

Truthy - 10/29/2019 12:22:08 PM

+9 Boost

Tesla stock down 3 percent today based on 10-Q filing with SEC. Turns out the profit was based on one time accounting maneuvers.

SanJoseDriver - 10/29/2019 4:19:53 PM

-6 Boost

I think the real story is how they still made $3.13 billion despite the fact that buying any other EV in the United States will get you an additional $6k rebate. Despite the $6k disadvantage, they still sold an insane number of cars for an EV-only company in the US. There is one more cliff in January where the federal rebate drops to $0 for Tesla. As other automakers lose their subsidies as well the market will no doubt benefit Tesla even more. They still outsold all other US EVs COMBINED in Q3.

Truthy - 10/29/2019 1:33:31 PM

+8 Boost

And no license yet to build cars in China. Seems like that should have been a priority before building a factory there.

jeffgall - 10/29/2019 6:56:39 PM

+3 Boost

Maybe that Model X has a thing for Hondas