There's no indication that the guy was aware he put it in Summon mode. He double tapped something he was trying to single tap and then didn't respond to a modal popup as he was exiting the vehicle.
This is not a UI interaction that should result in the car driving off by itself. Humans are fallible.
Perhaps your reactionary pearl clutching is severely misplaced. The author didn’t say he drove it anywhere busy or that he really drove it much at all.
I can’t help but judge you harshly for actually thinking the author is careening down a street at any speed with the windows up “light headed on fumes”.
I agree. He's willing to lie about how long he was at the Milford supercharger station by reporting 58 minutes while in reality it was 47 minutes. He's intentionally reducing range whilst reporting otherwise so it can't be a matter of time savings. He's trying to vandalize the reputation of the vehicle.
It doesn't need to phone home when the ignition is off and could have been programmed to go into standby. You can hardly crash a car with the ignition off. Even if you do, it could be woken up using an accelerometer and try to phone home just a
a few times. This is shitty engineering. I am quite amazed, because the Japanese normally don't do this. Probably another stupid marketing decision.
In fact, after trying numerous approaches and trying to work through the car’s software controls, Deeter found himself driving to a board meeting with one hand on the steering wheel and one holding shut the driver-side door. “It wasn’t terribly smart, but I didn’t have time to call an Uber.”
Maybe he should stop phoning home
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