Tesla Smart Summon Bonanza — 7 Races

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2019 06:13:12 +0000

Tesla Smart Summon was all the rage for a few days on Tesla Twitter and Tesla YouTube. For obvious reason, too — it’s fun! More thoughtfully (putting on my serious face), it’s an amazing step forward toward door-to-door fully self-driving Teslas. That’s at least half the excitement — what it indicates is coming, much more than what is here today. Nonetheless, tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of Tesla owners were eager to see what Smart Summon could do and what its limitations were. That included me, a new Tesla buddy, and a friend of his who happened to be in town at the Supercharger where we had decided to meet

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Tesla’s Navigate On Autopilot Is Smooth As Silk — CleanTechnica Review

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2019 06:20:29 +0000

I don’t have much opportunity to use Tesla’s Navigate on Autopilot since I seldom drive on the Interstate. (I’m eagerly awaiting “Navigate the City” or whatever the next iteration is!) However, I recently drove through Tampa, Clearwater, and cities in that vicinity for about 2 hours and had the chance to really spend some time using the beta Navigate on Autopilot feature. It’s a fascinating feature and the details of it go beyond what I realized before using it. I genuinely hate driving through Tampa, and the most concise takeaway of this whole experience is that Navigate on Autopilot definitely made that task safer, easier, and less stressful

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What If We Go From Paying For Transportation To Being Paid To Go Places?

Credit to Author: Paul Fosse| Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2019 04:10:32 +0000

This week I read a series of tweets that inspired me to write this article on declining transportation costs and how they could fundamentally change the markets for personal transportation

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How Much Is Tesla FSD (Full Self Driving) Worth For Me?

Credit to Author: Maarten Vinkhuyzen| Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2019 03:50:23 +0000

My Renault Twingo 1.5 dCi is 7.5 years old, and while it is a great little car, it is not electric. With new longer range models that have less problematic prices, the time to switch has finally arrived for me

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Tesla Smart Summon Is Deemed Safe Enough & Came Just In Time

Credit to Author: Maarten Vinkhuyzen| Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2019 19:17:21 +0000

Some argue that Tesla Smart Summon should not be released because it is “beta” software. That is not a strong argument. According to Lifewire.com: Beta refers to the phase in software development between the alpha phase and the release candidate phase. Beta software is generally considered “complete” by the developer but still not ready for general use due to a lack of testing “in the wild.”

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Why Smart Summon Matters

Credit to Author: Frugal Moogal| Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2019 23:00:30 +0000

I mentioned in a recent article that I added to my stock position in Tesla for a variety of reasons. Before I go on to discuss Smart Summon, I wanted to address a complaint in the comment section of that article

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Tesla Smart Summon Chases Kids (Video From Inside Car)

Credit to Author: Marika| Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2019 16:30:24 +0000

Okay, so I’m sitting in the car waiting for my whole family (husband and two little girls) to come back from a quick stop for shopping. The car is plugged in and charging at a Tesla Supercharger (thank you to buyers who used our referral code). My husband came up with a funny phrase to describe a “park & plug” state, which is “plark.” So, you could say I’m sitting in a “plarked” car in a Tesla “plarking lot.”

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Consumer Reports Calls Tesla Smart Summon “A Science Experiment”

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2019 07:19:19 +0000

Consumer Reports has tested Tesla’s new Smart Summon feature and found it wanting. It’s more like a science experiment than a finished product, the testing service says.

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Tesla Reached 7,000 Cars Per Week In 3rd Quarter & Nobody Noticed

Credit to Author: Maarten Vinkhuyzen| Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2019 06:36:13 +0000

From the start of Tesla Model 3 production until about a year ago, the most important, nearly daily, Tesla news was about the weekly production numbers. We visited the Bloomberg tracker regularly to stay abreast of the news, and the FUD. And then Tesla started producing over 4,000 vehicles per week regularly and the interest disappeared. Tesla finished the marathon many doubted it could endure for more than a mile, two at the most. Those were fun times

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Tesla FUD: I Was Wrong

Credit to Author: Frugal Moogal| Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2019 16:03:12 +0000

CarsA while ago, I started a semi-regular series in which I examined specific cases of Tesla FUD (or “Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt”). The plan was that I would look at a FUD topic that it seemed a ton of stock analysts were suddenly communicating about Tesla. The idea began because in my regular check-ins about how Tesla was doing, I would often find my newsfeed dominated by a bunch of writers claiming the same basic idea, and how that idea showed that Tesla was in big trouble

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