| Self parking Lexus - Click HERE for Original Thread |
| SkiTLz |
Thats friggin sweet. Wonder how that works?
Probably alot cheaper to just learn to park though. |
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| ChromeDragon |
| As I said where this was posted on another board. This function will eliminate the hardest part of our joke of a driver's examination and allow even more terrible drivers on the street. Booourns. If you can't parallel park then you shouldn't be driving. |
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| Malaria |
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Originally posted by SkiTLz
Thats friggin sweet. Wonder how that works?
Probably alot cheaper to just learn to park though.
from what i've seen from the vid it works like the bmw version.
you pull up next to the car your gona park behind.
then you put the car in reverse and on the vid screen the back up camera shows the car your beside right now, thats the one thats gona be infront of you, you set a mark where the back end of that car is (with that yellow bar you can see in the vid).
then the car starts the manuver and uses the back up sensors to make sure the car your in dosent hit the car thats behind you, while doing this the car also uses that marker you set on the video screen to judge where the front end of your car is relitive to the back end of the car that your gona be behind and starts the counter steer part of the parallel park.
now after thats done the car is still facing the street and thats where you or the guy in the video takes over and puts right steering while moving forward to bring the car parallel to the curb.
impressive but i like doing the parallel park on my own, its so much more rewarding. |
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| BigTrucker |
| Didn't it take 3 times longer for him to push all those buttons then it would have taken him to actually do it? |
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| raidar |
| I agree that it can potential allow a lot more lesser skilled drivers, so for the most part it's novel, but of no real use. I mean who doesn't like to park. If you don't want to have to learn how to park, hire a valet or driver. Like Jeremy Clarkson always says, just because you have money to buy a nice car, doesn't mean you have the skill to drive it. |
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| fugumerkur |
its cool. but , make cars simpler dammit, easier to tune, easier to maintain, easier to enjoy.. Go carts are cool cause they are plain and simple, get in and race, cars are gettin dumb, soon enough my cat will be able to drive a luxury car..
Simplicity is key. I love to feel the road, hear my exhaust feel my engine shake the car..
oh well, some fat woman with heavy arms will enjoy that system! can they at least put handicap signs on cars with that assist! |
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| sparkycivic |
they are placing a lot of trust in people's ability to use touch screens and to set parameters. Hell! programming a remote control is supposed to be easy too, how many people can actually do it on the first attempt, given paper instructions? 25% tops.
Who will be paying for the dammage when a car gets hit by one of these dolts? it's gonna be lexus somehow... |
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| Malaria |
i think lexus would teach the customers how to do this, as part of the big speach they give new customers when they deliver a car, i think the people that buy the car second hand would have a bitch of a time with it
and on top of that, say your in downtown and its rush hour you dont have long to complete a parallel park, so while your parked next to a car setting up the system your blocking off a lane of traffic, i can see this pissing alot of ppl off. |
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