Recently, a video of Tesla crashing into a $2 million Cirrus Vision jet while using the "summon" function has been circulated on foreign networks.
According to the video, a Tesla running a Summon system drove into a small airport and then hit the tail of a small Vision jet, turning the plane about 90 degrees, according to EvoJets.com, the plane involved appears to be the Cirrus Vision SF50, priced between $1,764,000 and $2,156,000.
The summoning feature is part of Tesla's Full AutoPilot suite, which allows owners to direct their cars to their location using smartphones and their GPS locators, which primarily utilize its external cameras to identify the surrounding environment and objects to function properly.
However, there is no reasonable explanation for why Tesla did not stop before it reached the plane, and we do not know the exact time of manufacture of the vehicle, because Tesla previously achieved its semi-autonomous driving function by using cameras and radar in its vehicles, and later transitioned to running semi-autonomous driving functions only through camera systems with the introduction of Tesla Vision.
Tesla Vision was originally launched with the Model 3 and Model Y, and since delivery in May 2021, both vehicles have completely lost any radar, and camera-based systems have also been used in Model S and Model X vehicles delivered in mid-February 2022 or later.
As for the occurrence of this incident, some foreign media speculated that the cameras or sensors installed on Tesla cars may not have detected the plane, because most of the part of the plane hit by the car was in mid-air (the position was too high). While this speculation has not been confirmed, it seems to explain why the vehicle did not recognize such a large object in front of it, after all, Tesla's vehicles are already relatively accurate in terms of summoning operations.