Yeah, we need to ban the sale of bleach, knives, draino, aspirin, cigarettes, alcohol, hammers, nails, saws, shovels, tractors, semis, trains, cars, fishing poles.
After all, we can't make any of those things 100% safe so they are obviously completely broken.
Tesla's smart summon operates at under 5mph. It's not perfect, but it's also not fast. If you are using it in a situation where you can't see the car then yes, you are at fault for using a tool in an unsafe manner.
Can it be improved and made safer? Certainly. Should it? Yes. Does it need to be completely shut off until it is? No. It can be safely operated by responsible car owners. Until we start having major issues with smart summon damage I see no reason to kill it. A rich person ramming a private plane is not a "major issue" any more than a nascar wreck is a "major issue" for automobiles in general.
Most of those have danger intrinsicly with how they function, making it safe mostly means not using it. Many of them are also are largely only unsafe to the person using them. Those unsafe to the general public have a _large_ amount of regulation and testing around them.
Tesla's summon thing is unsafe because they can't be assed to take the time to implement it well and QA it appropriately. Summon isn't intrinsicly unsafe, they just have a half-assed implementation of it. Like many other of their features, they're too interested in pretending it works better than it does, and just throwing a warning in some doc somewhere as cover.
Also really all of them are dangerous to the Tesla owner/operator, where an argument could be made that they're accepting the risk, but _also_ to the general public.
The general public should not be the victims of Tesla's shitty, unprepared beta test(s), especially not just to satisfy Musk's impatience.
Tractors on public roads get to skip out on basically all safety testing, yet one recently killed a friend. They are more dangerous than Tesla summon both in deaths per year and deaths per mile yet the general response response from regulations is meh. Most Pollution gets the same free pass until something extreme happens, it’s simply the default to allow just about anything new until it proves a significant issue.
Guns, knives, wood chippers, chainsaws etc.
Summon/Smart summon can be used safely if you monitor the car.
Tesla tells you that if you don't watch the car, you can cause an accident.