The safety of Tesla’s “summon” concept is entirely suspect.

What if it kills many people on its way? Uber tried, and failed, to argue a trivial software switch made the company not liable for murder while en route to pick up a rider.

A Tesla owner summons it in a parking lot. The Tesla runs over a woman and her child walking in the lot to their car and kills them. Who’s at fault?

A Tesla owner summons it on the street. The Tesla drives on the sidewalk and kills three pedestrians, before high-speed hitting a pole, spinning out of control and causing an eight car pileup. Who’s at fault?

What quality check is used to prevent these safety failures? What loopholes will Tesla try to exploit to avoid liability for its rushed design flaws?

Here’s another taste of Tesla’s low quality engineering haste.

With GmsCore v0.2.28.231657 when selecting “Location” or “Summon” the Tesla Motors app (com.teslamotors.tesla) crashes.

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Start the Tesla Motors app
2. Click on ‘Location’ or ‘ Summon’
3. The app crashes

This gives “crashing” on “summon” new meaning. Or does it?

Why trust “summon” from the lowest quality car made in history?

The Belgian court has just ruled Tesla engineering is so subpar and dangerous, “luxury” cars so poorly made, owners can get a full refund.

GmsCore is to allow applications designed for Google Play to run on systems that do not have it available. It’s part of the microG project, a German government sponsored Google free reimplementation of Android.