EXACTLY what I've been saying since the start of this whole project... humans in general are absolutely terrible and unpredictable in parking lots more than anyplace else.
There will be TONS of "hold on, I need to go fetch my car" situations with head to head standoffs, other drivers stopped too close behind the spot, wrong side of the lane, etc.
Just wait until it goes live, watch the news stories go wild and the stock take a hit once again. Just like the current summon it's a gimmick at best.... and I love Tesla, but they should be spending their time elsewhere.
I'm not a FSD optimist--I think there are a lot of intractable problems involved in getting all the way there.
But the "breaking the rules" thing? Teslas
already do that. In emergency situations, Teslas will swerve on to the wrong side of the road if it has to in order to avoid or mitigate an accident.
And just today, on AP, I drove through a construction zone with crazy lane markings. The car broke all sorts of rules in order to drive in a sensible way. If it can do that at 50 mph, it can potentially handle a low-speed stand-off in a parking lot. Maybe they won't have all that implemented yet, but we're a lot closer to that being reality than to, say, an unprotected left turn facing traffic.
And I think you're overestimating the bad PR that will come from those kinds of incidents. Sure, the anti-Tesla forces will try to play them up--but they prefer to highlight incidents like fatal accidents rather thn a parking lot stand-off. Also, I don't think it's the kind of thing that hits the stock. At worst, jurisdictions might prohibit the use of Smart Summon in response to multiple complaints, but that doesn't represent a substantial threat to the company the way an NTSA investigation of a fatality while on AP might.
