Elon Musk has confirmed that Tesla is due to upgrade its 'Summon' auto-parking feature with some ground-breaking features.

Announcing that the update will be available in six weeks on Twitter, he said vehicles will soon be able to follow the owner 'like a pet' when they hold down the Summon button in the Tesla app.

New footage released on social media has shown how one Tesla driver is already making use of the existing Summon feature to avoid parking fines while he's at work.

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Tesla auto-park update: Elon Musk confirmed on Thursday that a new update to the 'Summon' feature was due in 6 weeks

Musk said in a series of tweets posted on Thursday that the Summon upgrade will only be compatible in Tesla cars made in the last two years.

'Tesla advanced Summon ready in ~6 weeks!,' he posted.

'Just an over-the-air software upgrade, so will work on all cars made in past 2 years (Autopilot hardware V2+).'

He then revealed some of the advanced features the system will offer.

'Car will drive to your phone location & follow you like a pet if you hold down summon button on Tesla app,' he said.

'Also, you’ll be able to drive it from your phone remotely like a big RC [Radio Control] car if in line of sight.'

It's also understood that the feature will allow compatible Teslas to move around car parks, find empty spaces and read parking signs without the aid of a driver.

Elon Musk's series of tweets posted on Thursday evening

Musk said the feature could beckon the vehicle to the owner and follow them like a pet

The Tesla App (pictured) already allows owners to remotely reverse their car out of a space at the push of a button

The Summon feature, which is part of Tesla's driver-assist Auto-Pilot system, currently allows Model S drivers to park their cars from outside the vehicle in tight spots or to move the cars short distances to shift parking spot.

It's designed so that drivers can get their expensive electric cars in and out of garages without having to squeeze between walls or prang the doors in smaller buildings.

But one driver in America has shown how he's using the feature to avoid racking up parking fines while at work.

Via his Twitter profile, D Shawn Kennedy from Madison Wisconsin posted a video on October 31 of his Tesla parked outside the office.

In the 23 second clip he explains that a new two-hour parking restriction is being enforced where he parks.

The video shows him using the Summon button in the app to reverse the Tesla from one parking space to a vacant space directly behind it so that he doesn't incur a fine for parking for more than the 120-minute allotted time period.

At the time of publishing, the video has racked up over 40k retweets and more than 200k likes.