After being “summoned” by its owner using the automaker’s autonomous parking technology, a Tesla vehicle seems to slowly crash into a $3.5 million private plane in a video shared on Reddit on Thursday.
The incident occurred during an event hosted by aircraft manufacturer Cirrus at Felts Field in Spokane, Washington, according to the Reddit user.
The security camera footage appears to show the Tesla gently colliding with and then shoving the Cirrus Vision Jet across the tarmac in the smartphone video.
The Tesla owner, according to the poster, was utilizing the “Smart Summon” option, which allows a Tesla vehicle to leave a parking space and maneuver around obstacles while its owner is there. You may “summon” your Tesla car from a distance of up to 200 feet using only the Tesla app on your smartphone, as long as it is within your line of sight.
The user said: it also owns a Tesla Model Y, but claims they aren’t the “poor individual (with bad decision-making ability) who summoned his Tesla around multiple expensive aircraft – only to crash it into the most expensive one ($3,500,000)!”
Tesla owners immediately began recording videos of near-collisions or confused, slow-moving automobiles after Smart Summon was initially released in 2019. One Tesla owner complained of “front bumper damage,” while another said their Model 3 “ran into the side of a garage.”
After seeing a video of a near-collision with a fast SUV, the owner concluded that their Smart Summon trial “didn’t go so well.” Pedestrians and drivers in other automobiles filmed another Tesla trying to make its way across a Walmart parking lot, seeming perplexed.
According to Electrek, a newer version of the function allows users to summon their Tesla vehicles from further away and handle more complicated parking settings. Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla, has called Smart Summon the company’s “most viral feature ever.”
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