Elon Musk Provides Updates on Park Seek; Major Architectural Improvements Enroute

Musk provides an update on Tesla's future Park Seek feature

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In the ongoing pursuit of fully autonomous vehicles, Elon Musk continues to push the boundaries, with Tesla once again proving its dominance in the electric vehicle industry. Following recent social media engagement with Tesla Owners Silicon Valley (@teslaownersSV), the tech titan shared updates regarding the imminent upgrade of Tesla's Smart Summon and Reverse Summon capabilities.

Musk took to Twitter to address speculation and confirmed Smart Summon and Reverse Summon would receive significant updates soon, saying "major update coming in a few months." Tesla was aiming to initially release 'Actually Smart Summon' in late 2022. Musk reaffirmed that version 11.4.1 incorporates "major architectural improvements," promising to elevate FSD, and parking features play a role in that program.

Elevating Self-Parking Features to New Heights

This tweet builds on Tesla's reputation for continuous improvement, heralding yet another revolutionary upgrade in autonomous vehicle technology. Smart Summon, part of Tesla's Full Self-Driving package, currently allows vehicles to navigate through a parking lot to pick up the owner. Meanwhile, while in the early stages of development, Reverse Summon, or Park Seek is intended to enable a Tesla to drop off the owner at the entrance of a building and go find a parking spot. Park Seek is expected to have different modes, allowing the owner to pick the parking spots that would be the most conveinent.

The significance of these improvements should not be underestimated. By enhancing these features, Tesla is improving the overall safety and convenience of the autonomous driving experience. With AI managing everything from video inputs to control outputs, the result would be a car capable of making nuanced decisions, similar to a human driver, but with machine precision.

Anticipating the Advent of a New Era in Driving Convenience

Musk's statement about the upgrade alludes to a more mature, advanced FSD architecture, which may hint at an accelerated timeline toward the goal of fully autonomous vehicles. Although a specific release date was not given, Tesla enthusiasts are on the edge of their seats, eagerly anticipating the upcoming update.

This latest announcement from Musk also underscores the tech magnate's unwavering commitment to keeping Tesla at the forefront of the electric vehicle market. As the world looks forward to this new era of driving convenience, one thing is for sure: Tesla's Smart Summon and Reverse Summon are about to get smarter than ever.

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Tesla Says 12V Power Socket Access Will Not Return With Sentry Mode

Not a Tesla App

It turns out that the big undocumented change in Tesla update 2024.32 that disables the 12V power and USB ports while Sentry Mode is active is not a bug but an intentional change.

A fan contacted Tesla Service to see if the change was intentional and what the reason behind the change was. Surprisingly, they received a response pretty quickly.

No 12V Power Access

Tesla has decided to restrict 12V power access for safety reasons—namely, to “reduce the likelihood of thermal events” when third-party devices are left powered on without users present. Tesla reached out to the fan in question by phone, and they seemed to be sticking to that line.

It seems that Tesla is resolute that it was due to safety reasons and that the change would not be “fixed” or allowed in a future software update – as this was an intentional change for safety reasons.

Other sources have reported that the change was due to potential misuse of the 12V power access, with people wiring 1200w microwaves and kettles or jury-rigging 240v to 120v adapters, which had apparently been the cause of multiple fires in Tesla vehicles within China.

Workarounds

Thankfully, for those who camp or need to keep their sub-trunk fridges powered while still having security in their vehicles, there is a simple, although inconvenient, workaround. You can enable Camp Mode, then manually lock your car (since Camp Mode turns off walk-away door locking) and turn off climate controls from the app.

While Sentry will NOT be active with this workaround, the car's power sockets remain powered. While this workaround is fine to use occasionally, it’ll be tiresome for those who use a fridge regularly.

We’re still hoping Tesla considers bringing the Cybertruck’s Power Control menu to the rest of its vehicles and is somehow able to limit the max draw from these outlets to prevent dangerous situations.

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Join Our Tesla Robotaxi Event Prediction Contest

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With the Robotaxi event just a day away, we thought it would be a fun idea to run a contest to predict what Tesla will announce tomorrow evening.

We’ve outlined a list of questions below; simply answer them on our forums or social media (X or Threads), and be entered for a chance to win some great prizes.

The individuals who have the most correct answers will win one of five prizes mentioned below. If more than five people get them all right, a random drawing will be held from the pool of winners.

We’ll reach out to the winners either by email or by DM on social media.

The Questions

1. Will Tesla let attendees experience Robotaxi at the event?

2. Will Tesla first start the network with human supervision (ridesharing), or with Robotaxis only?

3. What year will the network start? When will it become fully autonomous? (if announced)

4. When will Robotaxi production begin? (if announced)

5. Will it be Robotaxi or Cybercab?

6. Which of these Robotaxi Concepts will be the closest to the one announced?

7. Will Robotaxi include:

   1. Front-facing camera?

   2. Stainless-steel body?

   3. Steer-by-Wire or No Steering Wheel? (if announced)

   4. Which current Tesla model has the most similar door-opening mechanism?

   5. How many seats will the robotaxi have?

8. Will the robotaxi include AI5/Hardware 5, HW4 or something completely different?

9. Where will Tesla’s first Rideshare/Robotaxi location be established?

10. Will customers be able to purchase a Robotaxi?

Requirements

Please use the template below to answer the questions on social media or in our forums. You can post your answer as a comment to our forums, to our X post, or to our Threads post.

Once you do that, repost or quote post your favorite article from us.

1. Yes

2. Ridesharing

3. 2025/2027

4. 2025

5. Cybercab

6. Dominic's

7. Yes, Yes, SBW, No, 2

8. HW5

9. LA

10. Yes

Prizes

Prizes are generously provided by Enhance and Jowua, makers of some of the best Tesla accessories and amazing Tesla community members. Prizes will be mailed out directly by them. Winners will get to choose their prize from the list below. First place will have the first pick and so on. There will be five winners in total.

• S3XY Buttons (including a commander and wiring)

• S3XY Knob for Model 3/Y

• Tesla Gaming Controller - Multi-Device Wireless Controller (Wireless Charging)

• Tesla Gaming Controller - Multi-Device Wireless Controller (Wireless Charging)

• Tesla Gaming Controller - Multi-Device Wireless Controller (Wireless Charging)

Disclaimer

This is a Tesla event, and Tesla normally likes to hold their cards close to their chest. If an answer is ambiguous, we’ll go with the best choice decided by our staff. We’ll do our best to be fair. This

With all that said, we wish our entrants the best of luck, and we’ll announce the winners at the end of the week.

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