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Posted in a reply to another thread, but I thought I would do a seperate post as well there are a lot of benifits to it, So I know the car via the keyfob could put in and put out of tight supermarket car parking spaces (and others like it when bays are full and one of the reasons I chose the mode with tech pack) but when I decided to use the auto park today for a paralell parking space it asked me do I want to remotely park. up on the screen it told me to put in park and get out of the car and then hold forward or backwards on keyfob down, I was stood there jaw hanging down as well as the person walking past who stopped to as we watched my car park with no one in it… I now feel like this should be a feature availible to all disabled motorists as my god I wont ever have to squeeze with my bad knees out and in when there are tight gaps.
I will just hold the fob and pull the car out 🙂
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If a parking space was so tight that I had to get out of the car and park it remotely, I’m afraid that I would avoid that space like the plague. The cars either side won’t have that feature and there’s a fair chance that you’d end up with a dent in the side of your car as they try to squeeze back in to their car with their body weight against their door, pressing against the side of your car.
If a parking space was so tight that I had to get out of the car and park it remotely, I’m afraid that I would avoid that space like the plague. The cars either side won’t have that feature and there’s a fair chance that you’d end up with a dent in the side of your car as they try to squeeze back in to their car with their body weight against their door, pressing against the side of your car.
but in normal bays sometimes, they have not left enough room to get into your boot either this has great advantages.
I test drove an Ioniq 5 and the way the salesman pitched it to me was – if all the disabled spaces were full I could get out the car and use the feature/key to park the car in a standard size parking space from the comfort of my wheelchair
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I test drove an Ioniq 5 and the way the salesman pitched it to me was – if all the disabled spaces were full I could get out the car and use the feature/key to park the car in a standard size parking space from the comfort of my wheelchair
In reality though, if this scenario occurred, where would you stop in order to alight from your car and transfer to your wheelchair, in order that you could then park the car remotely? Doing that in the middle of the car park wouldn’t be practical (or safe).
I can see that this feature would be useful to put a car in and out of a private garage where there is limited width but, as previously mentioned, I don’t think it makes sense in public car parks. If people are parking so close to other cars that they have to use a remote feature, there’s a strong likelihood that this will result in damage to your car when the occupants of adjacent cars have to squeeze into their car, when they will likely hit the side of your car with their door. Having incurred several dents this way myself over the years, I make a point of avoiding narrow spaces as it’s asking for trouble.
I test drove an Ioniq 5 and the way the salesman pitched it to me was – if all the disabled spaces were full I could get out the car and use the feature/key to park the car in a standard size parking space from the comfort of my wheelchair
In reality though, if this scenario occurred, where would you stop in order to alight from your car and transfer to your wheelchair, in order that you could then park the car remotely? Doing that in the middle of the car park wouldn’t be practical (or safe). I can see that this feature would be useful to put a car in and out of a private garage where there is limited width but, as previously mentioned, I don’t think it makes sense in public car parks. If people are parking so close to other cars that they have to use a remote feature, there’s a strong likelihood that this will result in damage to your car when the occupants of adjacent cars have to squeeze into their car, when they will likely hit the side of your car with their door. Having incurred several dents this way myself over the years, I make a point of avoiding narrow spaces as it’s asking for trouble.
I don’t know if the system has improved with the 2023 updates @MFillingham
If you get to the hospital and all the disabled spaces are full, you have no choice but to park in a standard/narrower space. Although far from ideal this function is better than trying to get out of your car in those spaces. Wherever you alight ( put hazards on) and other people should be driving slowly enough to reduce the risk/danger.
This feature can only improve.
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I can honestly say I’ve never tried the parking assist to park ‘around the corner’ I have put the car straight to the parking space (just pull back to park) and that worked fine. This also means you can get out while half in the space and then move the car back into the space fully knowing it’ll be straight.
In theory there’s nothing wrong with pulling up, getting out and getting the car to park, although I’d expect there’s a pretty good chance it’ll not park perfectly, which in a tight spot is pretty much exactly what you need to minimise the chances of getting some idiot opening the door into your car.
It’s not something I’m likely to be trying other than just to see if it can and that’ll only be where I can hide in a quiet area without risk of annoying other drivers.
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How you have described using it still seems beneficial to me – this technology ( auto parking – granted not with the key ) has definitely improved since i first used it probably over ten years ago
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How you have described using it still seems beneficial to me – this technology ( auto parking – granted not with the key ) has definitely improved since i first used it probably over ten years ago
As long as it benifits you, then that is all that matters.
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