Smart Summon is one of Tesla’s more futuristic-looking features: an owner can use the app to bring the car towards them while monitoring its movement. The system has developed over the years, from Summon to Smart Summon and Actually Smart Summon. Despite that progress, the original vision had not yet been fully realised at the time of this report.

Musk suggested that another significant step was approaching: a version capable of navigating multi-storey car parks, an especially difficult environment for automated vehicle movement. This remained a development target, rather than confirmation that owners could already use it there.

The limits of multi-storey car parks

The Summon capability described in the report was limited to relatively flat areas, a restricted operating range and owner monitoring through the app. Underground and multi-level garages can have poor or unavailable GPS reception, making localisation more difficult.

The article linked possible progress to newer versions of Full Self-Driving (FSD). It referred to FSD V13.2.X release-note plans for destination parking, including multi-storey garages among possible future environments. Such plans did not establish that the feature was ready for public use.

SLAM: finding a way without GPS

In that setting, satellite positioning alone would not be enough: cameras and AI would have to provide reliable perception and localisation. The article discussed SLAM—Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping—as a way for a vehicle to build a map of its surroundings in real time, identifying pillars, walls, ramps and obstacles while estimating its position. This explained a possible technical approach, not a confirmed account of Tesla’s implementation.

Robot vacuum cleaners use related mapping techniques inside homes, but a car park presents very different requirements. A vehicle must negotiate tight turns, gradients, ramps and pedestrians with sufficient reliability, even where external positioning is unavailable.

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The role of FSD V14

Musk said on X that FSD V14 would bring important Smart Summon improvements, particularly at low speeds. The article connected these plans to end-to-end neural networks that interpret the driving scene rather than rely solely on hand-coded instructions. Extending that approach to underground parking would still require reliable perception and decision-making; the architecture alone did not demonstrate that the problem had been solved.

A potentially useful improvement

If Tesla could extend Summon to multi-storey garages, it could be one of the feature’s most significant improvements. Calling a car from an airport or shopping-centre garage would be useful, provided the system could operate within its supported conditions and required supervision.

At publication, FSD V14 was expected soon in the United States, with improvements to low-speed manoeuvres. For Europe, the timing, regulatory position and eventual form of any such functions remained uncertain. The report did not announce their availability for European owners.

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