>If this is a common enough problem It isn't a common enough problem. Over my 1 year of ownership with almost daily driving, I only had to use the card twice.

>If this is a common enough problem It isn't a common enough problem. Over my 1 year of ownership with almost daily driving, I only had to use the card twice. Once when setting up the car for the first time, the second time when I was dealing with valet parking (for obvious reasons). It is basically a kind of a failsafe solution, just in case your phone dies or something like that. And mind you, i don't live somewhere where my car gets constant network connection. In fact, the underground garage of my apt building where I park the car has zero network or cell coverage. It all works just fine. You don't need to have active internet connection to unlock the car with your phone, it just needs bluetooth and an unexpired certificate from Tesla servers, which syncs occasionally in the background. But until that cert expires, it works perfectly fine with no internet. Never had such a situation happen to me before, despite me opening the Tesla mobile app only once in forever.