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Re:Summon Your Tesla from Your Phone by untog on Monday January 11, 2016 @03:31PM (#10883235)
Just seems like a straightforward use of language to me. What other word is even applicable?
Re:Summon Your Tesla from Your Phone by thinkingkong on Monday January 11, 2016 @03:33PM (#10883254)
Its easy to dismiss things as obvious when theyre done well.
Re:Summon Your Tesla from Your Phone by untog on Monday January 11, 2016 @03:35PM (#10883278)
It's also easy to praise things because you like the person saying them.
Re:Summon Your Tesla from Your Phone by dsp1234 on Monday January 11, 2016 @03:57PM (#10883447)
Tesla Recall

Tesla Direct

Tesla Mobilize

Tesla Hail

Tesla Greet

Tesla Whistle

And that's just looking at synonymns of summon and hail without doing any thinking

Re:Summon Your Tesla from Your Phone by drewrv on Monday January 11, 2016 @10:24PM (#10885375)
Tesla Recall would be a terrible name. Car recalls are associated with saftey failures. Meanwhile people need to be convinced this feature is safe. There's so much more to it than using a thesaurus!
Re:Summon Your Tesla from Your Phone by untog on Monday January 11, 2016 @04:04PM (#10883523)
Out of those, Direct, Mobilize, Greet, Recall and Whistle are far, far more ambiguous (with multiple meanings) than Summon. Hail is associated with taxis. If you put them all in a list it would take all of five seconds to realise that Summon is the best option.
Re:Summon Your Tesla from Your Phone by TheBiv on Monday January 11, 2016 @04:12PM (#10883604)
That's assuming that someone would be looking at a list like that and not doing what Microsoft or other companies do where they make up their own term for features/products
Re:Summon Your Tesla from Your Phone by MiguelHudnandez on Monday January 11, 2016 @04:58PM (#10883911)
Now introducing Nissan FetchDrive Plus Connect, a subfeature of CarWings ® Nissan Motor Corporation.
Re:Summon Your Tesla from Your Phone by rail2rail on Monday January 11, 2016 @03:33PM (#10883259)
"Car Getter"
Re:Summon Your Tesla from Your Phone by kemayo on Monday January 11, 2016 @04:15PM (#10883624)
My favorite comment I saw on Twitter about this was just "Accio Tesla!", but I suspect the licensing fees would be a bit outrageous. :)
Re:Summon Your Tesla from Your Phone by beamatronic on Monday January 11, 2016 @03:39PM (#10883315)
Consider some of the alternatives

Request car

Beg for car

Plead for car

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Re:Summon Your Tesla from Your Phone by Eldarrion on Monday January 11, 2016 @03:58PM (#10883458)
Why would you request, beg or plead when it is your personal car that is coming to you? Call maybe... but summon kind of rolls off the tongue better... never mind when you consider how gaming is developing and how you'd run into that particular word in pretty much any game that involves magic and 'calling' things to you.