{"id":41628,"date":"2025-12-25T15:12:02","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T15:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/using-ai-to-avoid-getting-your-car-towed\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T15:12:02","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T15:12:02","slug":"using-ai-to-avoid-getting-your-car-towed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/using-ai-to-avoid-getting-your-car-towed\/","title":{"rendered":"Using AI to avoid getting your car towed"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.insider.com\/694461c3832e0ef1ead68336?format=jpeg\" alt=\"Parking enforcement in action\"\/><figcaption>Parking enforcement in action<\/p>\n<p>IMAGO\/Joa Souza via Reuters Connect<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>A version of this story originally appeared in the BI Tech Memo newsletter.<\/li>\n<li>Sign up for the weekly BI Tech Memo newsletter here.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A Tesla owner recently shared a delightfully chaotic, and very 2025, use case for the company&#039;s FSD software, which relies heavily on computer vision and other AI technology.<\/p>\n<p>After parking overnight in a loading zone (&quot;They won&#039;t tow on a Sunday,&quot; his wife insisted), the couple watched from their fifth-floor window as a security guard prepared to have their Tesla towed away.<\/p>\n<p>Shoes off and panicking, he started to sprint, until his wife yelled: &quot;WAIT \u2014 just summon it!&quot;<\/p>\n<p>From the breakfast table, he opened the Tesla app, tapped Summon, and watched as the car woke up, slipped out of the loading zone, and rolled up to their building&#039;s front door \u2014 just in time for the owner to jump in the vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>The guard, stunned, asked if it was &quot;like one of those Waymo things.&quot; Cue an impromptu FSD TED Talk.<\/p>\n<p>The owner says FSD saved him $400, a trip to the tow yard, and cemented itself as his &quot;best purchase ever.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Sign up for BI&#039;s Tech Memo newsletter <\/em><\/strong>here<strong><em>. Reach out to me via email at <\/em><\/strong>abarr@businessinsider.com<strong><em>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Read the original article on Business Insider<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parking enforcement in action IMAGO\/Joa Souza via Reuters Connect A version of this story originally appeared in the BI Tech Memo newsletter. Sign up for the weekly BI Tech Memo newsletter here. A Tesla owner recently shared a delightfully chaotic, and very 2025, use case for the company&#039;s FSD software, which relies heavily on computer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41629,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-41628","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}