Audi's Autonomous Piloted Parking : Real Life Transformers???

Ever wished to have a car which would make you feel yourself like 007. NO??? Need not worry. Soon you will be able to do that (hopefully ;) ). How?? Keep on reading...

At the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) which was held in Las Vegas few days ago Audi showed something which would definitely blow your mind. CES is considered as world’s most important electronics show. There, Audi had shown several new technological aspects and one of them is through this self-driven Audi A7 showing off the brand’s piloted parking system. It reminds of James Bond movie Tomorrow Never Dies where Bond would operate his BMW 750iL with a remote control. Here we have Annie Lien (Senior Engineer, Electronics Lab at Volkswagen Group of America), who shows us a cool demo of this awesome feature. She directs an Audi A7 using her phone and it parks itself at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel Las Vegas and on leaving hotel; she directs it off from the parking to her. They call it as Park Assist. And this what Audi has to say about its Park Assist technology :

"Audi’s automatic parking systems operate by means of either ultrasound or cameras, which display images via the onboard monitor. One   particularly convenient solution is park assist. When backing into a parking space, it performs all the necessary steering movements; it can handle both parallel parking and parking perpendicular to the street.

The system finds a parking space with ultrasound sensors that scan the roadside in two dimensions while driving at moderate speed. The system notifies the driver via a message in the display once the sensors have found a space which is large enough.

If the driver wishes to park in the space, he or she shifts into reverse and the park assist system takes over the steering. The driver must accelerate, shift gears, and brake. When parallel parking, the detected space is large enough if it is about 80 centimeters (2.62 ft) longer than the vehicle itself. Park assist can perform multi-point parking maneuvers and also offers support in leaving parallel parking spaces.

Another technology from Audi is the parking system plus with surround view cameras. Four small cameras – in the single-frame grille, at the rear and in the side mirror housings – record the vehicle’s immediate surroundings. The driver can call up a variety of views on the large onboard monitor, including a top-down virtual view. On corners or junctions with an obstructed view, the system can analyze cross-traffic otherwise invisible to the driver in front of or behind the vehicle."

To get a feel of that you can watch this video :

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