By Tesla owners will be able to tell their cars to home in on their phone signal and crawl around behind them "like a pet" in a few weeks' time, if Elon Musk's timelines are to be believed.
Musk says that the electric cars' updated Summon+ app, which is part of the app which helps Tesla Model S and Model X drivers park up in tight spaces and drive along short distances, will apparently turn your car into a two-ton metal dog, but a dog you can climb inside of and direct to your house or the shops.
In November last year, Musk described how he envisaged the tech would "drive to your phone location and follow you like a pet", which users able to control their Tesla from their phone: "You’ll be able to drive it from your phone remotely like a big RC car if in line of sight," as Musk put it.
If you feel like you've seen this kind of tech somewhere before, that's because you're thinking of that bit in Tomorrow Never Dies where Pierce Brosnan blowing up gangsters in a Hamburg multi-storey car park.
Very, very good. Musk added that Summon won't be available everywhere as Tesla were "getting some regulatory pushback," but that Tesla's autopilot safety tests are going pretty ruddy well thanks very much.
