WTF, now all of us have to watch out for moving Teslas even when no one’s inside them?  Like if I’m walking in the parking lot, there’s no way to tell if that empty Tesla parking in that spot will just run me over.

My first thought when I watched Mr Guajardo’s TwitVid and read the accompanying description was that the BMW clearly wasn’t an M3, and did someone’s Tesla run into his BMW, and how was he filming his own car while driving it? It then dawned on me that people are referring to their Model 3s as M3s, and I died inside a…

I haved read Jalopnik for a while now and often find myself feeling the articles about Tesla are strongly biased and misstate or mislead. I have a Tesla Model 3 with the option that got me the v10 software installed Friday afternoon. After more than a few tests, I have to admit that this time, you got it right: Smart…

I don’t care much for the auto-summon as used here, it’s basically a tech demo. However, if I could get out and have the car park in a tight space where the doors can’t open all the way and then get it out the same way, that’s actually pretty damn useful.

Beta software is fine when the consequences of its use on non-users is between minimal and nonexistent. A beta release of World of Warcraft is harmless. But would you be okay with a pilot flying a plane using unproven Beta-release software? The 737-Max situation suggest we really shouldn’t be doing that kind of thing.

Honestly, I think it’s quite irresponsible of Tesla to let consumers use this tech before it’s fully developed. They’ve seen the idiocy that humans demonstrate when presented with something called “autopilot” - you’d think they would have learned their lesson.

I am already salivating at the upcoming non-stop judicial battles between Tesla (and other brands that will copy this smart-summon feature) and the insurance industry. It will get really serious when we have real autonomous cars on the road that will have to encode in their algorithms a decision between killing its…

My thought is that any Autonomous Vehicle must to able to function completely disconnected from all external data. No internet, no GPS, no connection to off-site (ie. more powerful) computers. Other than roadmap updates, it should all be on-board (maybe GPS for “general position” input, but certainly not relying on it…

Accusing the authors of corruption is pretty foul. Yet somehow you’re in the black and I’m in the grays.

It’s offensive to me as an engineer that this kind of recklessly dangerous half baked product is released to the public. Tesla continues to overhype primitive functions, giving those companies that do their homework on hard open ended problems a bad name.  A bunch of software proframmers who don't understand planning…

That is so lame. Why would anyone want to stand there and wait a long time just cause technology I guess? Looks like it sucks even if it doesn't crash. 

Just wait until the first toddler gets run down. You know it's going to happen.

Car Insurance Companies HATE This One Trick

The only thing a new Tesla release creates is another dumbfounding race to be the first one to post a video online for the likes and retweets. If it wasn’t for social media desperation would anyone even care about this feature? The video game is more real-world useful than a ‘Car comes to you (but only when you are clo…

I parked too far awaaaaay has been a rallying cry of lazy assholes for decades.

I’m not talking about folks with disabilities; if your body has betrayed you in some way, you not only deserve closer parking, but the folks who fuck with you over it deserve a special place in hell.

But for the healthy folks who don’t want…

The best way for Tesla to have tested this would be to fill the whole car parking lot with Tesla’s and summon all of them all at the same time to different places and see how they work themselves out, of course Tesla doesn’t test anyything, that’s what the customers are for.

This “feature” is idiotic. If walking to your vehicle in even the largest of parking lots is so difficult you’d rather stand there and watch the vehicle come to your location than you clearly have a disability and thus have a reserved handicapped spot. If you’re too fucking fat and lazy to walk for two minutes then…

Oh, my.

That’s what I call a whiz *bang* feature.

These Tesla features exist only for people who want less responsibility for their actions, yet they require a new level of attentiveness and new skills. That’s horrifying and negligent.