That’s very blatant sensationalist journalism that conveniently does not mention that there is a person holding down a button the entire time that the car is being summoned.
If that’s “dangerous”, well, so is piloting it manually.
If that’s “dangerous”, well, so is piloting it manually.
That is just as dangerous as using your smartphone while driving in a parking lot, which is forbidden for good reasons.
For the sake of argument, could Musk’s statement, along with his very public insistence of being actively engaged in the design process, demonstrate a cavalier disregard for proper safety engineering at the management level (outside acceptable industry practice) and so a defective process?
AT+RELEA
NO CARRIER
Unless the car brakes the very instant the connection drops (and not when the timeout propagates through the networking stack), now you have two problems.