Parking assist not working well?
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Parking assist not working well?
I normally do the parking manually. But for the fun of it I have tried the parking assist just to show it off for my amazed son. I have found this function to be nearly unusable. Now I don't know if it is because I have high expectations or that my system is faulty.
First of all: it is slow as hell. But that can't be helped. So no problem there. It is just not usable in a busy street. Especially with the behavior I describe below.
For parallel parking:
For reverse parking:
In short: I have never seen it do a good fluid maneuver. And it parks too far from the curb.
Has anyone seen his car do a good parking maneuver in 1 go? Or does your car also go back and forth while parking?
First of all: it is slow as hell. But that can't be helped. So no problem there. It is just not usable in a busy street. Especially with the behavior I describe below.
For parallel parking:
- It will never find a spot unless there are 2 cars with a space in between. So if there is a space at the end of the line of parked cars it will never find it. It will also find spots on the right (right hand drive country) and very little spots on the left.
- The maneuver is very bad. If I find a space with with more than enough room (sometimes twice the size of the car). I can parallel park the car manually in 1 move while reversing. The car however swings the back in, stops the car when it approaches the curb, then turns the wheel while the car is standing still (making me cringe for what the tyres are going through turning while the car is standing still). Then goes forward, then backward and so on until it is satisfied. I have seen the car going back and forth for 4 times in some places. My tyres are not liking this.
- The car beeps that it is satisfied with what it has done. Then I get out of the car and see the result. The car has decided to park at least 10 CM (3") from the curb and sometimes more. That is no way to park a car. My mirrors will be gone in a few days if I park my car sticking out in the street like this. So I park the car manually closer to the curb after the car has finished.
- All the while I look like an idiot to all passersby with the car going back and forth in a space where I can park about 2,5 cars and still ending miles away from the curb.
For reverse parking:
- The usual problems with finding a spot.
- You would think this should be easier. I have the same problem however. The space is big enough for the car. It will reverse into the spot, it looks good but then the car decided to stop, straighten the wheels while standing still, go straight forward out of the spot and then reverse back in again.
In short: I have never seen it do a good fluid maneuver. And it parks too far from the curb.
Has anyone seen his car do a good parking maneuver in 1 go? Or does your car also go back and forth while parking?
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I normally do the parking manually. But for the fun of it I have tried the parking assist just to show it off for my amazed son. I have found this function to be nearly unusable. Now I don't know if it is because I have high expectations or that my system is faulty.
First of all: it is slow as hell. But that can't be helped. So no problem there. It is just not usable in a busy street. Especially with the behavior I describe below.
For parallel parking:
For reverse parking:
In short: I have never seen it do a good fluid maneuver. And it parks too far from the curb.
Has anyone seen his car do a good parking maneuver in 1 go? Or does your car also go back and forth while parking?
First of all: it is slow as hell. But that can't be helped. So no problem there. It is just not usable in a busy street. Especially with the behavior I describe below.
For parallel parking:
- It will never find a spot unless there are 2 cars with a space in between. So if there is a space at the end of the line of parked cars it will never find it. It will also find spots on the right (right hand drive country) and very little spots on the left.
- The maneuver is very bad. If I find a space with with more than enough room (sometimes twice the size of the car). I can parallel park the car manually in 1 move while reversing. The car however swings the back in, stops the car when it approaches the curb, then turns the wheel while the car is standing still (making me cringe for what the tyres are going through turning while the car is standing still). Then goes forward, then backward and so on until it is satisfied. I have seen the car going back and forth for 4 times in some places. My tyres are not liking this.
- The car beeps that it is satisfied with what it has done. Then I get out of the car and see the result. The car has decided to park at least 10 CM (3") from the curb and sometimes more. That is no way to park a car. My mirrors will be gone in a few days if I park my car sticking out in the street like this. So I park the car manually closer to the curb after the car has finished.
- All the while I look like an idiot to all passersby with the car going back and forth in a space where I can park about 2,5 cars and still ending miles away from the curb.
For reverse parking:
- The usual problems with finding a spot.
- You would think this should be easier. I have the same problem however. The space is big enough for the car. It will reverse into the spot, it looks good but then the car decided to stop, straighten the wheels while standing still, go straight forward out of the spot and then reverse back in again.
In short: I have never seen it do a good fluid maneuver. And it parks too far from the curb.
Has anyone seen his car do a good parking maneuver in 1 go? Or does your car also go back and forth while parking?
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E350e
I agree that it is not working well but not as bad as you described. It has issues finding a spot and, indeed, usually needs a one car spot (especially when trying vertical parking) but when it finds the right spot, it usually parks very good.
It occurred to me that it had found a vertical parking when I tried parallel parking and vice versa.
On the other hand, it managed to park is spots where I wouldn't even have tried to park.
It occurred to me that it had found a vertical parking when I tried parallel parking and vice versa.
On the other hand, it managed to park is spots where I wouldn't even have tried to park.
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Mine does not even do the reverse parking anymore and when finding perpendicular parking spots, it cannot find them and when it does, it does not detect the curb so the front bumper will always scrape.
With parallel parking, mine can find the spots fine when there is 2 cars or a car and a curb, but most of the time it does not put the car in the parking spot perfectly. Like it would be on one of the lines or over the line if the car on the one end is parked is further forward or backward.
With parallel parking, mine can find the spots fine when there is 2 cars or a car and a curb, but most of the time it does not put the car in the parking spot perfectly. Like it would be on one of the lines or over the line if the car on the one end is parked is further forward or backward.
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I haven't got used to the side camera's. My head cannot make any sense of what I'm seeing really. Do you use it while parallel parking? Where do you focus? I would like to see the distance between wheel and curb to estimate when to turn because sometimes the curb is uneven or I misjudge the distance.
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I haven't got used to the side camera's. My head cannot make any sense of what I'm seeing really. Do you use it while parallel parking? Where do you focus? I would like to see the distance between wheel and curb to estimate when to turn because sometimes the curb is uneven or I misjudge the distance.
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Hi from Melbourne Australia.
I also find it to be slow as.
I went to park at the local shops of perpendicular car parks and there was a gap of 3 cars in between both cars, so the E class went and did a parallel park in between them. Weird. People were beeping at me lol as they thought i was nuts and going to hit their car/s
I prefer the dipping side mirror and just chuck it in myself.
I have found though when I used it in a tight car park it parked in a spot that i wouldn’t have dared to going in forward.
Question though: What does “WARN EARLY” mean?
I also find it to be slow as.
I went to park at the local shops of perpendicular car parks and there was a gap of 3 cars in between both cars, so the E class went and did a parallel park in between them. Weird. People were beeping at me lol as they thought i was nuts and going to hit their car/s
I prefer the dipping side mirror and just chuck it in myself.
I have found though when I used it in a tight car park it parked in a spot that i wouldn’t have dared to going in forward.
Question though: What does “WARN EARLY” mean?
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Hi from Melbourne Australia.
I also find it to be slow as.
I went to park at the local shops of perpendicular car parks and there was a gap of 3 cars in between both cars, so the E class went and did a parallel park in between them. Weird. People were beeping at me lol as they thought i was nuts and going to hit their car/s
I prefer the dipping side mirror and just chuck it in myself.
I have found though when I used it in a tight car park it parked in a spot that i wouldn’t have dared to going in forward.
Question though: What does “WARN EARLY” mean?
I also find it to be slow as.
I went to park at the local shops of perpendicular car parks and there was a gap of 3 cars in between both cars, so the E class went and did a parallel park in between them. Weird. People were beeping at me lol as they thought i was nuts and going to hit their car/s
I prefer the dipping side mirror and just chuck it in myself.
I have found though when I used it in a tight car park it parked in a spot that i wouldn’t have dared to going in forward.
Question though: What does “WARN EARLY” mean?
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Today I had a funny incident while showing the parking pilot to a friend. It detected a parking spot and backed up into the spot to realize it cannot complete the task 
. It just beeped me to take over and get it out.
. It just beeped me to take over and get it out.
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I called the dealer about this and he told me to come by to test the feature. I won't be going since I think it's a waste of time. I have never had a dealer that could fix these kinds of problems. They also do nothing with the feedback they get. You would think this kind of feedback would be very important for MB.
This feature is now only used to entertain my child with a self-steering maneuver. At least this 1000 $'s feature has brought someone some happiness
This feature is now only used to entertain my child with a self-steering maneuver. At least this 1000 $'s feature has brought someone some happiness
