Summoned an unknown tens of thousands of dollar bills.
Recently, a short video of "Tesla crashing into a plane" flowed out of the Reddit community: a Tesla car slowly crashed into a $3.5 million private jet after being summoned by the owner using the "automatic parking function".
The phone video appears to capture Tesla slowly crashing and pushing the Cirrus Vision Jet over the tarmac. When the first impact came, Tesla did not stop, but continued to move forward...
Reddit users mentioned that the incident occurred at a sponsorship event by aircraft manufacturer Cirrus at Felts Field in Washington. At this time, a spokesperson for Felts Field has not responded to a request for comment.
At the time, the Tesla owner was reportedly using the "Smart Summon" feature, which allowed Tesla cars to leave the parking space and bypass obstacles to reach the owner's location.
That means that as long as the car is in your line of sight, you can summon your car from 200 feet away by simply using the Tesla app on your smartphone.
One onlooker, a Reddit user, said: "I don't think it's a good idea to automatically summon Tesla cars near several expensive Cirrus planes. Fortunately, the owner's car may have crashed into the most expensive of these planes, worth $3,500,000..."
What is the "Smart Summon" feature?
Tesla's "Smart Summon" Smart Summon feature was released in 2019 and is mainly used to let cars "automatically" come to the owner from the parking lot. In a way, it's Tesla's first true "autopilot" feature because it can be used without anyone in the car.
But like any Autopilot feature at Tesla or Full Self-Driving Beta, owners need to be focused and ready to take over.
Soon, Tesla owners discovered some problems.
A Tesla owner tweeted, "Someone didn't notice my M3 and damaged the front bumper."
"People thought I was really driving because I ran to the car before he got out of the car."
Another Tesla owner said his Model 3 hit the garage side:
There's also a video of nearly colliding with an SUV, making the "Smart Summon" test process seem less "smart":
Tesla CEO Musk has said that "smart calling" is the company's "hottest feature ever."
According to Electrek, an updated version of the feature enables owners to summon their Tesla vehicles from farther away and navigate in more complex parking environments.
Insurance Company: Can this be reported?
Netizens said: If Tesla can even crash into something as big as an airplane, what else is talking about automatic driving?
Perhaps the volume of an airplane is not common on motorized roads, but there are similar buildings, such as overpasses. Once Tesla crashes into the building, the consequences can be imagined.
In addition to security issues, there are also people who look at this issue from an economic point of view. Usually, traffic accidents will have insurance companies bear different degrees of economic risk, but for the dangerous automatic driving system, some people can't help but ask: "Will there be insurance companies willing to underwrite?" 」
Although the technology and rules and regulations of the current automatic driving system are constantly improving, its frequent occurrence is really worrying.
Reference Links:
https://www.reddit.com/r/flying/comments/u95dqt/someone_just_crashed_into_a_vision_jet/
https://electrek.co/2022/04/22/tesla-vehicle-crashes-into-jet-dangerously-summoned-by-owner/
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