> Easy: You shouldn't have continued pressing the button with people in danger of getting anywhere near the thing while it's in motion.
What is the point of the feature if I have to come to the car and inspect that there are no blockages around it? Should I then walk to the place from which I intended to use the feature and use it or should I maybe just enter the car seeing that I am expected to circle the car before using the feature?
I don't know, maybe there isn't any point in it. I don't own a Tesla, and have never used or seen this feature.
The rest of society is under no obligation to scale its expectations of your liability in proportion to you getting a perceived return on investment out of your expensive toy.
I.e. maybe you should always walk up to and around the car before using the feature in a public parking lot, and only make use of it to e.g. have the car back out of your own garage, provided that you have a clear view of your driveway being unobstructed.
Driving from the back of a mostly empty Cosco in the middle of the workday is pretty much the ideal use case, since you can easily spot the car and keep track of what is surrounding it as it comes to you. The app specifically asks you to make sure you have line of sight of the vehicle, and will not work if it thinks you're too far.
What is the point of the feature if I have to come to the car and inspect that there are no blockages around it? Should I then walk to the place from which I intended to use the feature and use it or should I maybe just enter the car seeing that I am expected to circle the car before using the feature?