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Got it on our Toyota auris, never fathomed out how to use it!
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Formerly known as Aldermog Member of the Inner Circle
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Had it on the last four cars now but never been inclined to use it. It takes more effort to watch all the lights and remember which buttons to press than I feel is worth the effort.
Current car
Parking sensors from and rear (bleeps/lights)
All around camera with wiggly lines for rear direction
Auto self park 90 to kerb
Auto self park parallel to kerb
I prefer Mk1 noodle, eyeballs, wing mirrors and bendy neck. Takes less time. Exactly! I have played with it once in a big carpark and whilst it works it is slow, fussy and it doesn't defensively react to other potential threats from cars suddenly pulling out from an adjacent bay, or getting what I consider is too close. On the other hand the 360 degree camera, with its "birds eye view" is useful as it allows me to indulge my OCD and get the car exactly centred between the white lines! Based on this experience the software/hardware behind autonomous cars have to come a long, long way before I'd trust it to park for me.
Peter,
66, 2016 Porsche Boxster S
No longer driving Tarka, the 2014 Plus 8...
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Caterhams? Not if they have a motorbike engine with no reverse gear! Budster had to watch me squeezing under a low branch to move forwards as I couldn't push it back up the slope I had thoughtlessly parked down.
However, I have a fiendish plan to work on this winter, to solve that problem for next summers driving.
Cut the branch off? 
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We have Hill Descent on the Beemer.
It has to be the most useless button I have ever had on a car.
It has been used once in 6 years!
Last edited by NeilL; 28/12/17 08:21 AM.
Neil
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We have Hill Descent on the Beemer.
It has to be the most useless button I have ever had on a car.
It has been used once in 6 years! As often as that? In the 12 years I've had our X5, I have never had reason to use it, Andy until you mentioned it, I had forgotten we even had it..
Paul
[At last, I have a car I can polish]
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The most useful I found the surround view option on my latest BMW. My Tesla has autoparking, in fact it works fine but I hardly use it....!
Ruut Bianchi
Morgan PlusFour 2023 Bentley Midnight Emerald
Morgan 4/4 4-seater 1990 Royal Ivory
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I've got park assist on my VW, only use it when the grandchildren pester me to use it as they think it's great. Other than that it's easier to park it yourself and save all the faffing about setting it up. I do like the sensors front and back though, which I initially thought would get on my nerves.
Peter
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Caterhams? Not if they have a motorbike engine with no reverse gear! Budster had to watch me squeezing under a low branch to move forwards as I couldn't push it back up the slope I had thoughtlessly parked down.
However, I have a fiendish plan to work on this winter, to solve that problem for next summers driving.
Cut the branch off? The Fossils now keep a pair of secateurs handy in readiness! 
Bud
4/4 "Stanley"
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Caterhams? Not if they have a motorbike engine with no reverse gear! Budster had to watch me squeezing under a low branch to move forwards as I couldn't push it back up the slope I had thoughtlessly parked down.
However, I have a fiendish plan to work on this winter, to solve that problem for next summers driving.
A friend of mine made a Kit-car with Kawasaki engine. He placed a camwheel on the prop shaft and uses a starter motor (with push button on the dash) to reverse.
Dirk
1993 Morgan +4 (Connaught Green)
2009 Mini Cooper D
2008 BMW 320d
1994 Ford Motorhome
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Chaps, Surely Park Assist is just a modern way of saying "Chauffeur"
Here for a good time not a long time!!
Reg
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