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Tesla update will make your car ‘follow you like a pet,’ Elon Musk says

He says it will be like driving a big remote control car.

 

Mikael Thalen

Tech

Posted on Nov 1, 2018   Updated on May 21, 2021, 2:41 am CDT

Elon Musk announced an upcoming improvement to Tesla’s Summon feature Wednesday, which will allow its electric vehicles to “follow you like a pet.”

In a series of tweets Wednesday evening, the entrepreneur said the new capability should be made available in around six weeks to all Tesla vehicles built within the last two years.

In the current Summon version, a Tesla vehicle can park itself inside your garage, for example. The planned update would, according to Musk, allow the vehicle to “drive to your phone location” and follow you if needed through use of the accompanying cell phone app.

You’ll also be able to drive the vehicle “like a big [remote control] car,” Musk added, if it is within your line of sight.

Musk says that by sometime next year, a Tesla will hopefully even be able to “drive around a parking lot, find an empty spot, read signs to confirm it’s valid and park.”

The intended upgrade was revealed shortly after Musk commented on a viral video showing the Summon feature being used to remotely park a Tesla.

Last week, Musk announced that the company planned to implement a “dog mode” feature designed to keep animals from overheating while locked inside their owner’s vehicle.

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*First Published: Nov 1, 2018, 3:24 pm CDT