Summon seems like a pointless party trick to me. 90% of the time it would be faster to just walk to your car in the parking lot than use summon. I wish Tesla would focus on genuine utility rather than party tricks. Perhaps those engineers could have spent that time on the production line improving initial quality? That would have been a much bigger ROI I suspect.
The kicker is that even if summon works 99% of the time, the 1% failures will be the ones in the headlines (this is already happening) so it's not even a bragging right for Tesla, more like a PR failure and also I suspect an insurance rate killer as there are going to be a bunch of $5,000 parking lot incidents in the next few months.
As is often the case with Elon there needs to be someone in the room when he shouts out ideas to say that's a stupid idea let's not waste development time on that.
The kicker is that even if summon works 99% of the time, the 1% failures will be the ones in the headlines (this is already happening) so it's not even a bragging right for Tesla, more like a PR failure and also I suspect an insurance rate killer as there are going to be a bunch of $5,000 parking lot incidents in the next few months.
As is often the case with Elon there needs to be someone in the room when he shouts out ideas to say that's a stupid idea let's not waste development time on that.