A Tesla Model 3 with Autopilot engaged driving the wrong way in a car park

New technologies are here to stay, but the truth is that they require a long and tedious development phase before they work fruitfully. Tesla, one of the most advanced brands in the world, amazed the world with its range of electric vehicles along with a series of features unprecedented until now. Autopilot is, without a doubt, one of the American brand’s most eye-catching achievements. It allows its users to use autonomous driving, a technology that many brands are eager to offer in the not-too-distant future.

It is no coincidence that, as has happened before, these technologies require a certain adaptation period during which they are prone to failure. Although Tesla has offered reliable proof of the good work of its Autopilot, today we have come across a video of a Model 3 driving the wrong way through the entrance of a shopping centre car park.

Many people know that the American brand provides updates for its cars just like a mobile phone. One of the most recent has included a curious and innovative feature called Smart Summon, and basically allows its user to have the car itself drive autonomously to pick them up from work, from shopping or from their own home.

However, the person “calling” their Tesla must be no more than 60 metres from the car itself, with the aim of covering only short trips without a driver. In this video, we can see how someone used this feature to have their Model 3 come and collect them after a few hours at the shopping centre, but we quickly notice that the electric saloon is driving the wrong way.

Given the short margin that Tesla vehicles have to use the Summon feature, we understand it is designed for very short trips. With this premise, we can determine that many areas accessed by the American brand’s vehicles may not have lane markings, or that the vehicle’s own GPS may not have them recorded in as much detail as a motorway or dual carriageway because of their status as a car park or residential development, which is perhaps why errors like the one in today’s video occur.

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Tesla still has to perfect this feature, which could end up becoming a double-edged sword if it is not used with caution and these confusions are not resolved. However, we are at the first steps of what will be the automotive future, which will be full of electric vehicles capable of coming to pick us up from any point we name and even taking us home without the need for our intervention.

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