Once again, Tesla “robotics” proves itself to be little more than fraud and imminent threat to society. A man who turned on his robot watched it erratically crash into others, before getting told by Tesla and his insurance company that it’s all his fault for stupidly thinking he could use the “Smart Summon” product exactly how it was advertised to him.

He used the feature to summon his parked car to pick him up.

“I was within range when I activated it,” he said. “I saw it moving initially, but then it took a sharp turn right instead of pulling out of the spot first.” He tried to deactivate the feature, but the car didn’t stop in time, so he ended up sideswiping the car parked beside it.

The estimate for damage to both cars was several thousand dollars. Ghazzoul contacted Tesla about the accident.

He said since it was their feature that malfunctioned, they should take responsibility, but he said they told him to contact his insurance company instead and that it was not their problem since he activated the feature.

His insurance company, meanwhile, said he was fully at fault for the accident.

What’s worse for Ghazzoul is that he has since discovered that it wasn’t even legal for him to use this driverless feature in public spaces in Quebec.

The crash was in spec? It’s certainly not the first time. Owners regularly report “Smart Summon” crashing with absolutely no time to prevent it, like this example where the Tesla runs a stop sign by jumping a curb and crashing into it.

Perhaps it shouldn’t be legal to put things into cars that can’t do what was advertised in the first place?

Good on Quebec for clarifying usage to the owner as illegal, however they need to be more proactive and go further. This case shows Tesla has encouraged and enabled illegal use of its remotely, centrally controlled and monitored killer robots, far more potently than anyone has been able to warn against use.