AWESOME or AWFUL? Would You LOVE It If You Could Summon Your Car To Come To YOU Via Phone?

In one of the James Bond flicks, Tomorrow Never Dies, we see the main character use his BMW 750iL unlike any other car at the time — it was released in 1997. That's because Bond whips out his Ericsson JB988 and controls his BMW so that it essentially picks him up to get him out of harm's way.

Well, it appears that life is imitating art. Sort of.

That's because some folks are now demonstrating how Enhanced Summon works with their Tesla Model 3 vehicles. Apparently, you can instruct the vehicle to pick you up and the car will actually drive itself over to you.

It's sort of hard to believe it's possible but it's happening. Of course it's not moving terribly fast but this isn't a James Bond film, folks.

Having said that, we've got to ask: Is this AWESOME or AWFUL? What say you, Spies?

SanJoseDriver - 3/27/2019 2:42:42 AM

-7 Boost

Regular summon is a cool feature, have only needed to use it one time ever. It is still too slow and short range to be practical, but is headed in the right direction. Tesla is still the only car with this capability, now for over 2 years. I'm sure advanced summon will be a great marketing tool as owners show off to friends--still has too many limitations but is damn cool

runninglogan1 - 3/27/2019 3:09:28 AM

-4 Boost

If it worked well - who wouldn't love it?

PUGPROUD - 3/27/2019 5:40:53 AM

+11 Boost

A hacker jacker's dream come true...just saying.

runninglogan1 - 3/27/2019 5:49:37 AM

-4 Boost

If you're afraid of hacking, stay home. Anything can be hacked.

MDarringer - 3/27/2019 7:46:57 AM

+3 Boost

@pugproud, you have to love @runningloser1's "there's nothing we can do, so let's do nothing" logic. Embracing failure must be how he sees virtue.

MDarringer - 3/27/2019 7:44:38 AM

+5 Boost

It's what lazy, entitled people will think is great, so of course you can summon your Tesla.

Tiberius1701A - 3/27/2019 11:15:16 AM

+2 Boost

80Ho beat me to it. Soooo stoopid.

CarCrazedinCali - 3/27/2019 2:15:37 PM

+3 Boost

this will be a great feature for the handicapped and elderly folks

Vette71 - 3/27/2019 5:12:53 PM

-1 Boost

How many of them can afford a Tesla?

Truthy - 3/27/2019 3:02:25 PM

+2 Boost

SanJoseDriver and RunningLoser1 are so enamoured of everything Tesla does. This article belongs under an earlier post about worthless gee-whiz options.

SanJoseDriver - 4/1/2019 5:53:29 AM

+1 Boost

Self driving is far from worthless. This is just one step towards that future, long way to go.