If you want to start your Monday with a laugh and proof that there are still good people in the world, I got the post for you.
Tesla Sentry captures a video of a woman chasing a Model 3 who was being called up thinking it was a runaway car.
“Summon” is a feature that Tesla originally launched to allow homeowners to move their cars autonomously for a few meters in their garage or in tight parking situations with no one inside.
Based on this feature, Tesla launched “Smart Summon”.
With the new version, owners can summon their Tesla vehicles from further afield, and cars will navigate more complex parking environments.
It is mainly used by owners to have their vehicles pick them up when leaving a shopping mall or restaurant, after parking them in a more distant parking lot.
Tesla eventually wants to release “reverse invocation” to allow people to simply step out of an entrance and the car to find a spot on its own.
CEO Elon Musk described Smart Summon as “Tesla’s most viral feature”.
Within weeks of launch, it had been used more than 550,000 times, and several Tesla owners posted videos that went viral of their vehicles involved in accidents and near misses while testing the new Smart Summon feature.
But apparently there are people who still don’t know about the feature.
A Tesla owner in Pennsylvania shared a funny video of a woman chasing her Model 3 to stop him from thinking the vehicle was moving away:
Not seen in the video, the woman tried to stop by putting her weight on the left front pillar.
The owner explained the situation in the video description:
I was leaving a restaurant in West Chester, PA and calling my Tesla Model 3. A woman saw my Tesla moving with no one in the vehicle, she thought my vehicle was moving away. She ran to get the car and started pressing the left front pillar to stop it. As soon as I saw what was going on, I stopped Tesla. Obviously, you were very ashamed. But I thought it was very nice of her to go out of her way to avoid what she considered a disaster, but also very funny.
Although she was embarrassed, she had no reason to be. She was just trying to be useful and didn’t know about Tesla’s summoning feature.
The funny situation was captured by another innovative Tesla feature: Sentinel Mode.
Sentry Mode is Tesla’s integrated surveillance system inside its vehicles using autopilot cameras around the car to record potential vandalism or other incidents.
Tesla owners need to connect a storage device to one of the USB ports on the center console, and the images recorded by Sentry Mode and TeslaCam, the car maker’s camera feature, will be stored on it.
The feature was first launched after thieves, especially in the bay area, began targeting Tesla vehicles – resulting in a stream of cars with broken windows and lost valuables.
Since the feature’s launch, it has helped capture vandals and thieves, as well as some pretty crazy videos of things happening around Tesla vehicles.
For Sentry Mode to work on a Tesla, you need some accessories, unless you have the latest version of Tesla vehicles. We recommend the Jeda Model 3 / Y USB hub to be able to use the other plugs and hide the Sentry Mode unit. For the drive, I am now using a Samsung portable SSD, which you need to format, but it offers a ton of capacity and can be easily hidden in the Jeda hub.
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