"micky" wrote in message
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In alt.home.repair, on Mon, 19 Apr 2021 08:37:58 -0700 (PDT), Dean
Hoffman wrote:

On Monday, April 19, 2021 at 10:27:12 AM UTC-5, wrote:
On 4/19/21 8:16 AM, trader_4 wrote:
On Sunday, April 18, 2021 at 9:17:18 PM UTC-4,
wrote:
A couple guys must have been testing Tesla's Auto Pilot.
http://thesmokinggun.com/buster/tesla/fatal-texas-tesla-crash-714503
The car hit a tree at high speed. The driver's seat was empty.

There was a local incident here that surprised me. A woman and her
young
daughter were startled in the parking lot of a small high-end grocery
store
when a Tesla came very close to them. There was no driver nor anyone
visible. Looks like someone about to leave the store summoned the car
to pick them up. I knew that was possible, I knew that they had been
testing
driverless cars in some cities, but I thought so far they always had a
person
in the car. I had no idea that with a production Tesla you could do
this.
I would have been totally surprised if I saw it happen to me. And a
car
owner, I for sure would not have done this unless I could watch what
the
car was doing.

Tesla does have a "feature" called "Summon". You use a smartphone to
command the car to come to where you are standing.

Video here about how well (or not!) it works.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3o2sI37xwOc

And yet another way for us to get fatter. Maybe people can use that
feature
after a workout at the gym.

LOL. Well there was that one guy chasing his car.

He wasn't chasing his own car, that was someone else
who decided that someone else had got out of their
car and it had driven off.

Maybe at training camp, you could have your
car take you out for a 3-mile run every morning.