Tesla’s newly-launched autonomous driving feature Actually Smart Summon (ASS) has garnered much attention from the entire Tesla and auto enthusiast community. And it’s not just about the cheeky abbreviation — it actually works in real-world scenarios.
The Actually Smart Summon feature allows Tesla owners to call their cars to them in a parking lot or driveway using the Tesla phone app and the car drives itself to them.
Currently, it’s a limited-release feature. According to Elon Musk, the Tesla ASS wide release should begin next week. It’s bundled with the upcoming FSD v12.5.3 with the firmware version 2024.27.20 (Release Notes here).
However, Tesla has released Actually Smart Summon to a limited group of original group (OG) beta testers. Two of these guys decided to test it on their cars in a joint venture.
Interestingly, these two Tesla Model 3 cars belong to two different generations — one is the legacy Hardware (HW3) and another is the new Hardware 4 (HW4/AI4).
Zack (@BLKMDL3) and @WholMarsCatalog (Omar) received the Tesla ASS 2024.27.20 (FSD v12.5.3) update on their HW3 and HW4 Model 3s respectively (Actually Smart Summon support on HW3 cars is confirmed).
The HW3 Tesla Model 3 used in this test is a 2018 model with ultrasonic sensors and the legacy Intel Atom graphics processor. The HW4 Model 3 is a 2024 model without ultrasonics and is equipped with the new AMD Ryzen APU.
This gives us a good visual perspective of how Tesla’s Actually Smar Summon (ASS) performs on the legacy HW3 cars compared to the new HW4 cars. Spoiler alert – both cars performed Tesla ASS almost identically.
The Tesla ASS HW3 vs HW4 comparison test was performed in a moderately busy parking lot with both cars and pedestrians. The cars showed good behavior around pedestrians which is a positive sign and should boost Tesla’s confidence for a wide release.
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