On December 24th, Weibo user @小特叔叔 released a test video of the Tesla Model 3 "Smart Summon" function in China. The test results were somewhat funny.
The Smart Summon function is a function that can control the vehicle to your location (using the GPS signal of the mobile phone as the destination) or your designated location, and can avoid obstacles and parking according to the actual situation of the road.
Although it looks very good, unexpected conditions appeared in actual testing.
The test Tesla was parked in an open-air parking lot. The user manually selected another parking space far away from it. Tesla successfully started, reversed, departed, gave way when meeting, and courted pedestrians. And so on.
In performing these operations, Tesla also managed to find and adjust reasonable routes to its destination autonomously.
If the test is complete by then, Tesla's performance is perfect, but at a fork in the road, Tesla misidentified and went to another road, causing it to drive further and further up to the "Smart Summon" distance. The upper limit, helplessly, the user can only intervene manually to get it back on the right path.
The user then tested it again on public roads and underground parking lots. The former could not perform the Smart Summon function directly, while the latter could not run the function because the underground was inaccurate.
You can watch the full video here.
