Tesla Model 3 Now Offers 'Summon' Self-Parking Feature (autoblog.com)

The "Summon" feature that the Model S and Model X have had for a while is now available in the Tesla Model 3. The feature allows the car to park autonomously without anyone in the car; it can even operate the garage door as it parks and powers down, or when it is called out of its parking spot by the owner. Autoblog reports: Tesla tweeted the news in response to a video showing a Model 3 park itself in a tight space in a home garage, before the garage door closes behind it. Elon Musk replied to Tesla's tweet by assuring viewers, "Note, no one is in the car or controlling remotely. Car is driving entirely by itself." The feature comes via an over-the-air software update.

Comments

Big liability issue and eula will not save them

[Joe_Dragon]

Big liability issue and eula will not save them if it went the wrong way and run over an kid on the sidewalk.

To all the Musk haters

[GerryGilmore]

At some point, you have to admit that Tesla continues to break new ground and drive auto/manmufacturing technology harder and faster than any other automaker.
Are they perfect and able (yet) to churn out 2 million vehicles a year? Nope, but they are sure as shit shaking up the traditional automakers, who desperately needed it. I'm rooting for the guy to win Bigly(TM) :-) .

Re: Scary

[Anonymous Coward]

I would guess that brakes and door locks would solve most of your concerns.

Re:Scary

[Loki_1929]

If the vehicle you're driving now was built in the past 10-20 years, chances are it's already drive-by-wire. You can press the brake pedal all you like, but if the traction control/electronic stability control/anti-lock brakes/etc decide not to apply any braking action due to a malfunction, you've got no brakes. And you can ease up off the accelerator pedal all you like, but if the throttle control sensor/cruise control/etc decide to throw gas into the engine, you're going to speed up right quick. And you'd best pray that steering assist doesn't malfunction in such a way that your steering becomes impossible to predict or you'll have next to no control over that either.

Accelerator, brakes, steering; all computer controlled. You've been at the mercy of computer malfunctions for years. The fact that you've still got a steering wheel to grip and pedals to press while you speed towards death in an uncontrollable malfunctioning car is giving you just enough false hope to let you believe you have some control. Tesla's just taking the next logical step. That step was and is inevitable.