Tesla Updates Model 3 To Include Summon Feature

BY Brad Anderson | Posted on

The Tesla Model 3 has been updated with one of the automaker’s most intriguing pieces of technology; Summon.

The electric automaker first introduced Summon on the Model S and Model X. With the touch of a button on the owner’s smartphone, the brand’s electric vehicles can be ordered to perform slow driving maneuvers. As the name of the feature suggests, this includes the car being summoned by the driver to pick them up.

Additionally, Summon can be used to order the car to park itself in a garage, as the video linked below demonstrates.

In a tweet, Musk wrote “Note, no one is in the car or controlling remotely. Car is driving entirely by itself.”

Tesla was able to easy install Summon on the Model 3 thanks to the sedan’s use of over-the-air software updates, a technology recently adopted by the BMW 8-Series as well as other new vehicles.

Not all Tesla Model 3s will receive this software update. Keeping in line with the philosophy of the Model 3 being the brand’s entry-level model, Enhanced Autopilot has to be ordered as an add-on when ordering the car for $5000. Alternatively, Model 3 owners can have the system retrofitted for $6000 after purchase.

During the last week of June, Tesla reached a major milestone in the history of the Model 3 and its history as a carmaker. With its Fremont facility in California running at full capacity, the company was able to build 5000 units of the Model 3 in a week, alongside two thousand examples of the Model S and Model X.

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