How is Smart Summon legal to use?
I'm guessing parking lots are private property?
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#12"Those using Smart Summon must remain responsible for the car and monitor it and its surroundings at all times. " Does this come with an "oh god, stop!" button of some sort?
You have to keep pressing the button. As soon as you release the button or the car looses the connection to the phone, it stops.
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#13How is Smart Summon legal to use? I'm guessing parking lots are private property?
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#14"Those using Smart Summon must remain responsible for the car and monitor it and its surroundings at all times. " Does this come with an "oh god, stop!" button of some sort?
I believe it's controlled by a sort of dead man's switch, i.e. you must continuously hold down a button for the car to move.
Literally - you stop holding it until after you are dead.
There must be additional safety features in the software to avoid collision with obstacles? Sonar sensors?
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#15I kinda wish Tesla made a few regular petrol cars for the enthusiast type such as myself, as this sounds like a ton of neat technology to play around with. I'm just not in the market for an electric car, unfortunately.
Edit: By enthusiast, I mean track/motorsport/etc enthusiast. I borrowed a Model S from a friend of mine for a few days and while I enjoyed it, it wasn't the most exciting drive, and I can't imagine it would be much good on a track. Amazing technology though.
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#16Really excited to finally get Spotify integration, that's huge. Also hoping they install WiFi at superchargers so you can watch youtube/Netflix while charging there. Not sure where else I'd use that feature.
My hope is that now that Spotify is available to Americans (where the people who develop the software are) the integration will no longer be total garbage.
The Spotify integration in v9 is so non-functional for me that I just use Bluetooth.
It seems to have zero ability to retry on network failure, and once it’s failed, it basically doesn’t work again on that trip unless you want to reboot the whole MCU.
Another reason I stopped using it is that if I have an audio book on my phone, if Spotify is selected then my phone will start playing the audiobook in the background over Bluetooth to nowhere while spotify plays on the speakers, thus losing my place in the book while I drive.
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#17I kinda wish Tesla made a few regular petrol cars for the enthusiast type such as myself, as this sounds like a ton of neat technology to play around with. I'm just not in the market for an electric car, unfortunately. Edit: By enthusiast, I mean track/motorsport/etc enthusiast. I borrowed a Model S from a friend of mine for a few days and while I enjoyed it, it wasn't the most exciting drive, and I can't imagine it…
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I believe it's controlled by a sort of dead man's switch, i.e. you must continuously hold down a button for the car to move.
Literally - you stop holding it until after you are dead. There must be additional safety features in the software to avoid collision with obstacles? Sonar sensors?
The newest version of Summon uses the cameras and I'm guessing the ultrasonic/radar to actually avoid obstacles, but is controlled by the app (you have to be holding the button down in the app)
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#19Really excited to finally get Spotify integration, that's huge. Also hoping they install WiFi at superchargers so you can watch youtube/Netflix while charging there. Not sure where else I'd use that feature.
My hope is that now that Spotify is available to Americans (where the people who develop the software are) the integration will no longer be total garbage. The Spotify integration in v9 is so non-functional for me that I just use Bluetooth. It seems to have zero ability to retry on network failure, and once it’s failed, it basically doesn’t work again on that trip unless you want to reboot the whole MCU. Another reas…
>My hope is that now that Spotify is available to Americans (where the people who develop the software are)
I thought Spotify dev was in Sweden, is that not the case?
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#20How is Smart Summon legal to use? I'm guessing parking lots are private property?
> How is Smart Summon legal to use?
I can't imagine it is legal anywhere fully automated, unsupervised cars are not, even places that have supervised autonomous testing, since there is no driver at the controls. Of course, if you are someplace the public driving laws don't apply, and no private rules have yet been adopted against it, you might be okay even in jurisdictions where self-driving vehicles aren't allowed.
> I'm guessing parking lots are private property?
They are, but in CA they frequently have signs notifying that the public Vehicle Code applies and is enforced.