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This makes me forget about the heartbeat monitor in the S60.
I wonder how this thing detects if it’s just about to scrape something. It seems there’s still the need to line up the car just right.
If that will get people’s cars parked straight and withing the parking lines, I’m all for it!!
TexasAg03 :
If that will get people’s cars parked straight and withing the parking lines, I’m all for it!!
And I thought I was the only one with OCD…
Wow the ultimate driving machine that now drives itself. Seems pointless to me, why would I want to get out of my car before it goes into the garage, if it was raining I would get wet! The whole point of having the car in the garage is so I never have to walk out in the rain to get into the car.
dmk1976:
It’s not pointless if you’re trying to squeeze your new Yankeestrassencruizer-width 7 series into a German garage so narrow that you can’t get out once the car is parked. That’s what the film was showing us. It is pointless for those of us in the U.S. The lawyers will never allow it to be sold here.
Redox is correct.
I was in Berlin a few years ago. We ended up with a rental E Classe (max speed 130 mph-and we used it). When we got to Berlin, our hosts were quite happy to tell us we got a parking space too. Parking in Berlin=Manhattan with less of a sense of humor.
The space was designed for a VW golf. Between two concrete pillars. I had to drop all passengers, and very carefully watusi out of the partly opened door. The Parktronic (looks and sounds like a radar detector) was key for parking anywhere. Those huge SUV spaces don’t exist anywhere in Europe, and the “design size” for all cars is the Golf size.
The kicker is that in this environment, not one car had the “door dings” you see in the States. Not one.
I was driving a Cayenne once in Denmark and had to park it in a garage that had an ancient creaky self-service elevator the size of a European garage-space. The Cayenne barely fit, and when I got it in, I reached out the driver’s window and pushed the “up” button. Halfway between floors, the elevator died and I was totally stuck. Couldn’t even get out the tailgate. Fortunately, the elevator eventually restarted after much button-mashing.
is that a 550? it looks less bangled.
So…this does work in reverse, right?
jdizzle:
So…this does work in reverse, right?
Hope so!
Manual tranny need not apply!
That scene from “Fast Times” keeps popping into my head…
Hmm, so judging by the small fragment of car you see when the garage opens, I think the car next to the siebener is a dreier, but the front end looks weird.
Facelift? weird glare? Mule?
@JJ
Euro-spec headlights?
Lawyers actually approved development of this?
It’s obviously a European development, not U. S., which is why the Euro-spec headlights and lack of lawyers. European home garages are narrower than what we’re accustomed to.