In your examples you can’t actually use the summon feature per Tesla’s terms that state you must have full, uninterrupted view of the car the whole time summoning.

Lawyers find a way. In this case, I like to call it the Liability Button. You have to keep your finger on it while summon is going, and take if off if something is might happen. A simple bit of software completely absolved Tesla of any liability and puts it all on you!

Oh don’t worry, the lawyers helped the engineers with that one. I call it the Liability Button!

Mustang may lose it’s crown as most blood-thirsty car

Tesla’s amazing suite of auto-pilot features!!*

It’s why I’m thankful for backup cameras now. That was always my thought whenever backing out anywhere, even my own driveway flanked by two families with small children. I would back out super-slow before I had the camera. 

No, they’ll just point to the fine print, which states that you’re supposed to have a complete, uninterrupted view of the car at all times (impossible in any real world public parking scenario, and point to the fact that they make you hold a button while it runs, which I’ve nicknamed the Liability Button.

Anyone in their right mind will freely and publicly have disdain for a company that has no shame in publicly beta-testing autopilot software on a 4k pound vehicle that can seriously injure or kill someone.

nice straw man, but let me know when you find a car on the road other than a Tesla with this kind of statement from the automaker:

Not even full attention, they demand full CONTROL which is impossible if you let the car do anything at all for you. Basically if you follow their legal fine print to it’s greatest interpretation that they would hold you to in court, if you use their systems/features at all, you’re breaking the agreement and are liable…

Good thing there are plenty of competing EVs on the market now. Go check out the Kona. 258 mile range. Just under $30k after tax rebate: outperforming and undercutting the base Model 3.

“you should be able to see your car at all points” 

The point is that practically any human that wasn’t completely distracted would have caught the problem and either stopped or got nowhere near danger in both cases.

“The blame is on Tesla”

I bet Tesla pay more for expenses in their legal department than their software design/testing

You’re in a Catch-22, because you are partly paying for the features that you plan to never use until they’ve been proven. But you and all other Tesla owners are essentially paying to be beta testers for this stuff, and without you and others actually using it, it will never get better and you’ll never be able to use…

Best summary of Tesla yet. The legal part should probably be added with “Tesla is not liable for any damages or injured cause by using features used as designed and built”

Tesla fine print states you must maintain line of sight of the car at all times; impossible in any real work parking lot scenario unless you’re close the business you’re leaving for the day and everyone else is gone.

This is the epitome of Tesla’s whole “autonomous” driving feature set. They’ll call ut autonomous and self-driving all day in marketing and even when they sell you one, but they always have in the legal print “must maintain control at all times” which is in direct conflict with everything else they say. It’s literally…

In for a rude awakening when they assume Tesla will be held liable, but find out it’s actually them. That’s what having their finger on that button is all about. It makes them liable. If they didn’t have to hold their finger on it, then Tesla would be at fault. But Tesla has way too many lawyers and fine print to let…