Owner claims Tesla crashed itself into a trailer without human assistance
While running errands, the owner claimed he parked his Model S behind a trailer. After a minute of standing near the car and talking to a fan of the brand, the owner went inside a nearby business. Five minutes later, he came out to a car with a crushed windshield and A-pillars.
After bringing the issue to Tesla's attention, the automaker claimed it was not Tesla's fault. Rather, the owner was "not being properly attentive" when using the car's Summon feature, which can autonomously park the vehicle using its built-in sensors. The owner claimed he never engaged Summon.
It's a weird scenario, for sure. Summon shouldn't take several minutes to engage, and the owner claims he stood by the car for a bit before going inside, during which time he would have noticed a moving vehicle. "They can tell me what they want to tell me with the logs, but it doesn't change what we know happened here," KSL quotes the owner as saying.
Of course, this could be a case of an accidental Summon command sending the vehicle into the trailer, because the trailer appears high enough to be "hidden" from Tesla's sensors, which focus on areas more in line with the front and rear ends. Whether or not that Summon command came from the owner or a glitch in the system remains to be determined. Bear in mind, Summon is still considered to be in beta, just like Tesla's semi-autonomous Autopilot system.
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