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Siemens VDO Park Mate Automatically Parallel Parks Your Car Edit


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Siemens VDO Park Mate Automatically Parallel Parks Your Car
Published: Feb 5, 06
Comments: 2
Views: 4,356

You don’t have to worry about your horrible parking skills anymore.  Thanks to Siemens, the new Siemens VDO Park Mate will help you squeeze your car into the tightest spaces possible.

From the Telegraph
“Scientists in Germany are working on a vehicle which not only parks itself, but even scans the street to find a space. Parkmate, which is expected to be available from 2008, is part of a battery of technology being developed by Siemens VDO, one of the world’s major suppliers of in-car electronics.

A test drive by The Daily Telegraph showed that, at least on this gadget, there is still work to be done.

Having worked out the geometry, Parkmate made a reassuring melodic chime, which tells the driver to stop and let the car steer itself into the gap. Then, as if by magic, the steering wheel turned and the BMW sidled inches past the car next to it and into the space - before hitting the kerb and mounting it. (The Telegraph)

 

References:  news.telegraph, gizmodo

Filed In:  autos inventions lifestyle tech unique








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rocketranger on Feb 16, 07  0 Trends   2,582 Comments
Retro fit into ALL cars or Install in all 07 models alone. Nice piece. Add to GPS Video display, Hate to parrel park. Nice to have some device Help me. Must have ALL cars. Sell via: Best Buy Radio Shack Target Auto Zone Pep Boys Kragen. Online Amazon.com Circuit City Frys. AutoEdSound store. Must have. Insurance should decrease rates if have Unit installed for parking damage alone. OK. Hello AAA. Auto Club.
rocketranger on Feb 16, 07  0 Trends   2,582 Comments 0
lastingvalue on Apr 30, 07  0 Trends   21 Comments
This is all the auto steering automation besides cruise control that i would ever allow. Programs more complex than this do wacky things from time to time. Computer programs that imitate reasoning closely will go insane from time to time and should not be running robots or cars that move independent of a ground locked tracks or ground locked scanned optical or rfid type beacon tracks and before a warm living thing approaches within reach it should halt motion until the living thing passes only doing an industrial operations. By doing so robot carts can do better than the three scifi rules of robotics by being unintelligent workers. Japan and korea are going to lose their shirts when the first malfunctions of asimo like robots outside of entertainment go nuts and bolts on some human(s).
lastingvalue on Apr 30, 07  0 Trends   21 Comments 0
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