Blind people for example don't care about zoom factors, but they care very much about the fact that they can completely control and use their iPhone using text-to-speech and certain gestures.
There was an issue with the graphics, and it initially booted into an assistive mode for first-time setup, and I wondered how a visually-impaired person would use the touchbar.
If not that capability will probably be added in the near future.
Pretty dispicable if you ask me, but there does seem to be a large segment of the population that just don't give a shit.
What's the state of designated parking spaces for such people? Just yesterday I crossed the parking lot at my local supermarket and passed a dozen extra-wide spaces right by the door, all marked with the generic symbol, painted in blue, and clearly marked for use by such patrons only. As it was most of them were empty, but that's good; every shopper with that need, currently at that store, had been able to park right by the door.
A short way beyond those spaces, are spaces marked for those shepherding children, which is less vital but still helpful.
So what's the state of this facility - extra wide designated spaces right by the door specifically intended for the people who need it - across the US and other countries? If it's being done, then this "smart summon" seems more of a gimmick. If it's not being done, it feels a little like an unnecessarily high-tech solution to a low-tech problem.
I have a friend who is physically handicapped and very much needs to park in these spaces. The only problem he has ever told me about is finding a spot to park at work. Apparently it's somewhat common where he lives for middle-aged women (his description) to game the system and obtain handicapped placards. He says he knows they are not really handicapped because he sees them walking briskly through long corridors at work without distress. Sometimes too young people will borrow an older relative's placard to park in those spaces.
Incidentally, he would never be able to afford a Tesla. He buys three- to five-year-old Hondas and drives them till they can't be fixed.
> I have a friend who is physically handicapped and very much needs to park in these spaces. The only problem he has ever told me about is finding a spot to park at work. Apparently it's somewhat common where he lives for middle-aged women (his description) to game the system and obtain handicapped placards. He says he knows they are not really handicapped because he sees them walking briskly through long corridors at work without distress. Sometimes too young people will borrow an older relative's placard to park in those spaces.
Firstly, it's very possible to be handicapped at any age, so this "too young" idea is pretty disgusting.
However, if people are using the placards of others, and if this is in the US, your friend should report these people to the police. The placard also comes with an identification card with the person's information on it, which can be used to verify their disabled status.
He left out a comma.
My friend has been handicapped since he was a child, incidentally. I'm well aware that some people have an entire life filled with difficulty.
As a Model 3 owner, I also went and tested out the capabilities in a few parking lots, just for fun.
It doesn't seem like its even safe for that though.
1. Garage is full of tight spots. If something "goes wrong", you have to lift your finger off the cell-phone (capacitive sensor, so its innately laggy to a few dozen milliseconds), that signal then has to be trasmitted over the internet, to the car which then applies the brakes.
2. Or... you could be in the car itself... and directly connected to the accelerator / braking system. No delays if something goes wrong.
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At least with a parking lot, you can argue that you didn't feel like walking (even if you need to keep the car within visual range). But in a garage + visual range, it means that you're giving up control for what amounts to a party trick. Its not like Electric vehicles give off fumes, so there's basically no disadvantage to getting in the car inside the garage instead.
Any chance to enable mobility without compromising safety, theirs or others, is a huge win.
1. Your car.
2. Your car's avenue of travel. [1]
[1] This is the important part. If you can't clearly see the entire path of travel, you could run a child over. Tesla obviously doesn't give a shit about that, because their collision detection doesn't work, and because the feature does not require this kind of line-of-sight to work.
The former is hard, but they want to be first to market, so they don't care about not building it right, and the latter would make this feature near-useless, so naturally, they don't ship this sort of fail-safe.
In certain locations (especially in winter) this will be a very nice feature. This is especially true to anyone with disabilities or extreme laziness. ;-).
Tesla getting this out now should allow for the feature to begin improving at a quicker pace due to more data.
A lot of naysayers will certainly harp on the number of wonky videos to hit the web, but this will quickly decrease once the newness of the feature wears off and improves.
No amount of “data” is going to solve the problem. Driving a car requires making a full mental model of the immediate world you’re in and creating accurate predictions of what everything else in that world is about to do, many of those things being sentient beings with whom you’re communicating through your own actions.
Nothing that Tesla is doing is getting much closer to that. The next major landmark on this timeline is a team successfully passing the Turing test, not a car moving across a parking lot.
If you share that opinion, that makes the Tesla a lethal toy.
Driving around other people requires theory of mind in order to make decisions based on what the people around us expect to happen
I’m teaching a friend to drive right now - it’s all about eye contact, being waved through, stopping and starting predictably and without surprises, you’re always looking around for pedestrians and checking if they see you and predicting, according to everything you’ve learned about humans so far, whether they’re about to step into the street
Deep learning on photographs is not going to cut it.
These aren’t “edge cases” that “data” will sort out. These are common everyday occurrences in parking lots that require something like consciousness to navigate and involve subtle communication with other participants.
That, or jerks could not park people in (especially when they're heavily pregnant).
After that I just told her to either park in the disabled spots or the mother/child spots. She has more right to them than the lazy boomers and BMW drivers who consider them their private parking spots.
I was with you till that statement. I know several people with disabilities who have been yelled at for parking in the handicap spot when they don't "appear" disabled.
People don't need to be wheelchair bounded to be disabled, and calling boomers "lazy" who use the spots (presumably legally) is in really poor taste imo.
There are also plenty of people who should have a badge but don't and who never park incorrectly (like my father-in-law who can hardly walk now thanks to his terminal cancer).
However my complaint is legitimate; it's disproportionately people around the 60-70 age group or the suited twit in a big car who thinks she's better than anyone else. At least with the older group they have a small excuse - the bigger spots make it easier to get out of the car which can be an issue if you're older and unfit.
Can you? Is it not allowed in the UK for one parent traveling alone to use such a space for the purpose of picking up their spouse and children?
Come on, seriously? You really think it's OK to just park in disabled spaces just because some other people are arseholes too?
As someone with a disabled child, I frequently encounter this kind of self-entitled, selfish behaviour - and I just can't fathom it. How can you be that uncaring?
I mean, if the summoned car came to me in a totally autonomous way, it would be useful in very large parking lots, like an airport, campus, etc... Or I could call it while still leaving my apartment/office, and the car would be there by the time I get to the door. But if I need to have the car in my line of sight, just standing still while watching it and holding the button, with me being aware and responsible of the car not bumping into any obstacle, then it means I'm pretty close to the vehicle, so why not just walk the very short distance to it?