Tesla Motors has just uploaded to its customers “Summon,” a feature that lets you order your car to pick you up or park itself—right down to opening and closing the garage door.
The company says it “would like” owners to use of Summon only on private property, which means it will come or go a few hundred meters at the most. It’s just one more example of the company’s clever use of free beta-testing. By crowdsourcing its customer base the company can wrangle data for far less money than, say, Google spends on its fleet of experimental driverless cars.
via IEEE Spectrum
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