Active Parking Assist
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Active Parking Assist
Anyone care to share their experience with this? It says it works for parallel and normal parking, both forward and reverse. And it will also back your vehicle out if parked under parking assist.
The instructions says it automatically detects parking spaces while driving below a certain speed but I never paid attention to the P symbol. Where is that symbol? Once it shows a spot, I guess all you’re supposed to do is hit the parking assist button.
The instructions says it automatically detects parking spaces while driving below a certain speed but I never paid attention to the P symbol. Where is that symbol? Once it shows a spot, I guess all you’re supposed to do is hit the parking assist button.
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I had the parking assist on the previous 2017 GLE and on the one 2020 GLE we just acquired. I used it a couple of times just to see how it works. It works well for both parallel and forward or back in parking. My experience is that if you have driven cars before and therefore parked them, it is faster to park it yourself. Utilizing the park feature, it will park the car exactly between 2 cars with the same distance on each side since it measures the space through the sensors. So there will be some back and forth shifting to make sure it is in the center of the spot you park. As a comparison, it is like putting in the address in your nav system to a place you know how to get there without it. The "P" symbol is right in the center display and turns blue once the car is below approx.10-12 MPH.
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Note that you have to pull well past the space that you want to park in, basically a full car length. If you have a car directly behind you, they will likely prevent you from backing up. This is particularly noticeable when you want to back into a perpendicular parking spot.
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It works pretty much as you describe with MY2022. It was less sophisticated in older cars. The latest system scans both sides of the street below a certain speed, I believe 30 mph and then shows with arrows next to the blue P in the instrument cluster where it found a spot. Then you can press the park assist button, which brings up the UI and let's you pick the spot if there's more than one and if perpendicular whether you wanna park forward or in reverse. Then just put it in R as instructed, take the foot off the brake and it does the rest.
If you are actively searching for a parking spot you can also press the park assist button right away and then keep driving below 30 mph and it will bing and show the parking spots it finds on the screen.
As said above, it's mostly a gimmick, though. Unless you are terrible at parking, you'll be able to park faster on your own. On a busy street it's pretty much impossible. It takes too long and other cars will prevent you from letting it park itself. It can also freak out suddenly. When I played around with it at the beginning it occasionally freaked out if vegetation is near the parking spot. It doesn't see it at first and then as it pulls into the spot it suddenly detects it and slams on the brakes. It's cool to show off a few times, but I haven't used it for nearly 3 years now. The P symbol, though is kinda useful. If I'm not sure if the spot is large enough I can drive past it and let it measure and then tell me if I'll fit, but then I still park myself.
If you are actively searching for a parking spot you can also press the park assist button right away and then keep driving below 30 mph and it will bing and show the parking spots it finds on the screen.
As said above, it's mostly a gimmick, though. Unless you are terrible at parking, you'll be able to park faster on your own. On a busy street it's pretty much impossible. It takes too long and other cars will prevent you from letting it park itself. It can also freak out suddenly. When I played around with it at the beginning it occasionally freaked out if vegetation is near the parking spot. It doesn't see it at first and then as it pulls into the spot it suddenly detects it and slams on the brakes. It's cool to show off a few times, but I haven't used it for nearly 3 years now. The P symbol, though is kinda useful. If I'm not sure if the spot is large enough I can drive past it and let it measure and then tell me if I'll fit, but then I still park myself.
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One thing my BMW would do is that it would remember 200 feet of driving before turning off the ignition. Every inch and steering position. It would then, at a press of a button, rewind that and back you out. It was great for parking in tight garages.
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Parking assist
I’m just very leery of parking in tight garage spots where I can get dinged from other car doors opening. Sometimes I think that if you have a nicer car some people will intentionally do it. Paranoid, perhaps…
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Yeah this is for my own personal garage. I scrape by the edge of the garage door with just inches to spare. The BMW would back out with ease due to the memory feature.
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Here's an example of the sideview showing the red line. Mine actually has a different perspective than that. More of a top down view, so I can see my car in relation to the curb etc.
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Lol, it’s not that serious. I’ve always had this issue, it’s just that the memory feature made it easy. That’s why I asked if MB could do the same. I’ve parked a Raptor inside, but I had to fold the mirrors.
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The 167s do that as well, as long as you parked using the self parking feature. IDK about 200 ft, but it definitely lets you know when it's ready to hand control back to the driver!
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Not the same. If parked with self-parking then it can drive the car out of the parking spot afterwards. It's only a few feet. Once you are out you have to take over.
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What I didn't know was why you would want your car driving 200 ft based on what it remembered. What if someone was getting in or out of their car?
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Are you saying the parking assist will park my car in my garage because that’s the only way it will back me out. I asked this question and someone responded earlier that it won’t auto-park into a garage space.
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As I said it won't park in a garage, which is why I responded the Active Parking Assist's ability to pull out of a parking spot is not the same as what BMW offers. In order to park in any spot with the MB system you first have to drive past it. So in case of a garage it would mean your driveway has to be perpendicular to your garage, so you can drive past the garage first so it can measure it, and then it would back into it in theory, turning 90 degrees. It won't park into any spot if you drive up to it forward like you do with a garage. But either way, the MB system only works for single spots between adjacent cars.
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I sometimes play around with it in a semi-empty supermarket parking lot. I'm always looking to see if i missed a step that is causing it to take so long to locate a spot and then park there. Found it much faster to just park it myself (manually).
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It's a party trick! Just like Mercedes Augmented Reality or their E-ABC sand trick.
If you want to have even more fun, use the Mercedes off-road mode for self-tracking, and you can go for miles and then retrace your steps.
I hope the 200 ft has the same warning as the track pace app, which would be not to use it on public roads.
You have to be in the car, though, unlike the Korean brands that allow you to back out with their remote key.
