If you want to start your Monday with a laugh and proof that there are still good people in the world, I got the job for you.
Tesla Sentry is recording a video of a woman running after a Model 3 who was in the middle of a call and thought it was a runaway car.
‘Summon’ is a feature that Tesla originally issued to allow owners to move their cars autonomously for a few feet in their driveway or in short parking situations without anyone being inside.
Based on the feature, Tesla released ‘Smart Summon’.
With the new version, owners can call up their Tesla vehicles from afar, and the cars will navigate more complex parking areas.
It is mainly used by owners to have their vehicles picked up when they come out of a mall or restaurant after parking the vehicles further in a parking lot.
Tesla finally wants to release ‘reverse summon’ to enable people to just go out at an entrance and leave the car alone.
CEO Elon Musk described Smart Summon as ‘Tesla’s most viral feature’.
A few weeks after its release, it has been used more than 550,000 times, and several Tesla owners posted videos of their vehicles being involved in an accident and near-accident while testing the new Smart Summon feature.
But there are apparently people who do not yet know about the feature.
A Tesla owner in Pennsylvania shared a funny video of a woman running after his Model 3 to stop the vehicle from rolling away:
Not seen in the video, the woman tried to stop it by placing her weight on the left-hand pillar.
The owner explained the situation in the description of the video:
I just left a restaurant in West Chester, PA, and called my Tesla Model 3.. A woman saw my Tesla moving without anyone in the vehicle. She thought my vehicle was rolling away. She runs to catch the car and starts on the left pillar before pushing to stop it. As soon as I see what happens, I stop the Tesla. It is clear that the lady was very embarrassed. But I thought it was so nice of her to go well out of her way to prevent her from being a disaster according to her, but also very funny.
While she was ashamed, she had no reason to be. She was just trying to be helpful and did not know about Tesla’s Summon feature.
The funny situation was captured by another innovative feature by Tesla: Sentry Mode.
Sentry Mode is Tesla’s integrated surveillance system in its vehicles that uses the Autopilot cameras around the car to record potential vandalism or other incidents.
Tesla owners need to plug a storage device into one of the USB ports in the center console, and the recordings recorded by Sentry Mode and TeslaCam, the carmaker’s dashcam feature, are stored on it.
The feature was first introduced after thieves, especially in the Bay, began targeting Tesla vehicles. This led to a stream of cars missing with broken windows and valuables.
Since the launch of the feature, it has helped catch vandals and thieves, as well as some crazy videos of things happening around Tesla vehicles.
To run Sentry Mode on a Tesla, you need a few accessories, unless you have the latest version of Tesla vehicles. We recommend Jeda’s Model 3 / Y USB hub to still be able to use the other plugs and hide your Sentry Mode disk. For the disk, I now use a Samsung portable SSD, which you need to format, but it offers you a large amount of capacity, and it can be easily hidden in the Jeda hub.
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