Smart Summon is the new name for Tesla’s autonomous parking feature, which enables a Tesla vehicle to leave a parking space and navigate around obstacles to its owner. Tesla owners who purchased the Full Self-Driving option on their car received it as part of the version 10 software update that went out last week. Using just a smartphone, you can “summon” your car to you from a maximum distance of 200 feet, as long as the car is within your line of sight.
Videos of Tesla owners testing the new feature have already began popping up on social media over the weekend, and wouldn’t you know it, it’s kind of a mess. One Tesla owner tweeted about “front bumper damage,” while another claimed their Model 3 “ran into the side of [a] garage.” A video of a near collision with a speeding SUV left the owner feeling their test of Smart Summon “didn’t go so well.” Another Tesla was filmed seemingly confused by pedestrians and other cars as it tried to make its way across a Walmart parking lot.
https://www.theverge.com/2019/9/30/20891343/tesla-smart-summon-feature-videos-parking-accidents
can someone explain the appeal to me of a feature where it just seems like you wait around to not have to walk 20 feet?
Like maybe if you had to park in a football stadium parking lot far away?
Like maybe if you had to park in a football stadium parking lot far away?
I'm not having Tesla owners calling their car M3. Not having it.
By diehard Go To Postcan someone explain the appeal to me of a feature where it just seems like you wait around to not have to walk 20 feet?Up to 200 feet. Could be useful when it's raining but Tesla make cars for California so not sure why they bothered if that was their excuse which it probably wasn't.
Like maybe if you had to park in a football stadium parking lot far away?
By NinjaFridge Go To PostUp to 200 feet. Could be useful when it's raining but Tesla make cars for California so not sure why they bothered if that was their excuse which it probably wasn't.
not having to walk seems like a feating feature for california to me.
By Kawhic Go To Postnot having to walk seems like a feating feature for california to me.The panel gaps are supposed to be big to allow more air in to cool you down. Elon's genius strikes again.
It's the ugliest thing around. Of all the trucks in the world, I would not take that of $70k, especially with the Tesla interiors.
By Fenderputty Go To Post
F150 looks like 2WD and lacking posilock from the looks of it …. versus 4WD
probably should had started the gas earlier too
The entire premise of a EV vehicle for towing is misleading to some extent. Sure the potential is there, but like not with recharging speeds.
LA to Lake Havasu is about 300 miles. That has a 500 mile range while under no load. Stick a 6000 pound trailer that act likes a sail and I doubt you make it in one charge
LA to Lake Havasu is about 300 miles. That has a 500 mile range while under no load. Stick a 6000 pound trailer that act likes a sail and I doubt you make it in one charge
I just think it's great that we have a thread of Musk doing amazingly unforced self-destructive things and were still going.
So this was heard under US law (which is not super surprising since he's the defendant and domiciled in the US but in the EU for IP/media law matters you can get the case heard in the country where the damage occurred - in this case I assume there's no such reciprocal arrangement in Thailand) but under UK law he'd almost certainly be guilty (not even saying that's a good thing our libel law is shite).
lmao, ran over the sign and crossed multiple lanes of traffic that had the right of way over his vehicle
By Kibner Go To Postlmao, ran over the sign and crossed multiple lanes of traffic that had the right of way over his vehicleSo above the average American driver
By ecnal Go To PostWhere my $TSLA boys at?
WASHINGTON — The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said Friday it will review a petition asking the agency to formally investigate and recall 500,000 Tesla Inc vehicles over sudden unintended acceleration reports.
Late Friday, NHTSA released a redacted version of the lengthy petition that said "Tesla vehicles experience unintended acceleration at rates far exceeding other cars on the roads" and urged NHTSA "to recall all Model S, Model X and Model 3 vehicles produced from 2013 to the present."😬😬
The petition cited media reports of crashes attributed to unintended acceleration and complaints filed with NHTSA.
Tesla did not immediately comment Friday.
Many of the complaints report sudden acceleration incidents when attempting to park vehicles in a garage or at a curb. Others claimed the sudden acceleration happened while in traffic or when using driver assistance systems and led to crashes.
In one complaint, a driver said a 2015 Tesla Model S 85D in California was closed and locked when he claimed "a few moments later the vehicle started accelerating forward towards the street and crashed into a parked car."
A Tesla driver in Avondale, Pennsylvania, was pulling into a parking spot at an elementary school when the vehicle accelerated on its own, the complaint said adding: "It went over a curb and into a chain link fence."
Another complaint said a Tesla driver in Andover, Massachusetts was approaching her garage door "when the car suddenly lurched forward: and "went through the garage door destroying two garage doors." The Tesla stopped when it hit the garage's concrete wall.
By Not Go To PostIncidentally, this is my wfh style, except replace "tune" with "meta-analysis of enterprise architecture research"
Newsom’s office now says Musk was supposed to deliver them directly to hospitals, but none have received any.
“The Administration is communicating every day with hospitals across the state about their ventilator supply and to date we have not heard of any hospital system that has received a ventilator directly from Tesla or Musk,” a spokesperson for the governor’s Office of Emergency Services told CNN. The news was first reported by the Sacramento Bee.
That led to a string of responses from Musk, who retweeted photos of hospital employees posing in front of the shipments and a screenshot of an email thread between a Tesla employee and public health official in L.A. County.
It may all be down to a technicality. Rather than shipping actual ventilators, the Financial Times reports that Musk appears to have shipped, in boxes bearing large red Tesla labels, a Bilevel Positive Airway Pressure, or BPAP, machine, which is used to treat sleep apnea. They’re designed to deliver oxygen to the lungs via a mask or nasal plugs that a patient wears at night, unlike an intensive care unit-grade ventilator, which uses a tube inserted down a patient’s throat for severely affected patients."Look everyone, I did a thing! Give me credit!"
"That thing you did didn't do anything"
"WHERE IS MY CREDIT"
Musk has had a controversial public record on COVID-19 from the onset, suggesting early on that the coronavirus would be comparable to other forms of the common cold and famously, in early March, that “The coronavirus panic is dumb.”
“The way things are looking right now, the world will soon be flooded with excess ventilators,” Musk tweeted Wednesday. “Even NY is giving them away!”Trump or Musk?
https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-selling-belongings-house-tesla-stock-2020-5?fbclid=IwAR1iiqWIbHJGgeC4RjOxiKrBajx-cmcbv7K6RqNqQZhY8LTv00-rWWUG_bg
Elon Musk, the billionaire and prolific Twitter user, is rethinking his attachment to the material world — and said in a tweet on Friday that a first step would be "selling almost all physical possessions."Bruh lmao
He also said he thought Tesla's stock price was "too high" — a tweet that was followed by a sharp drop in the share price of the electric-car manufacturer. Tesla's stock was down 9.3% late Friday morning.
Musk also said he "will own no house." He followed up with a tweet that his girlfriend, the songwriter and producer Grimes, was mad at him.
