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New Tesla Feature Will Self-Park The Car In Your Garage
Palo Alto-based Tesla releases a beta upgrade to its software. The company urges customers to become familiar with it on private property.
Seems like something George Jetson might once have done.
Call your Tesla car from your smartphone when it’s time to head to work. Obediently, it backs out of the garage and meets you at the door.
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Owners of Teslas - Model S and Model X - now have beta version of Summon, which is packaged with the Palo Alto-based company’s latest software update.
Summon can work with the car’s key or a connected smartphone, according to a Sunday release.
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But, says the Silicon Valley Business Journal, parking the car in the garage at night might be challenging for the tired driver arriving at home, as it involves quite a bit of prompting.
The company hopes that eventually, a Tesla equipped with Summon will be able to drive anywhere across the country to meet you, charging itself along the way.
-Image of Tesla Model X by Don McCullough, licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license.
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