does self parking work? Almost backed into a car on my first attempt

[Ken]

So i decided to test the self parking system the other day. It doesn't seem to detect lines in a parking lot, only physical cars via the sonar sensors. I was trying the setting to back into a parking space, but as I was holding down the button it tried to back into the car beside the spot so I cancelled. It might have been trying to back up to pull forward again, but I decided I didn't want to chance it. Anyone have experience with the system?

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[Firestop]

So i decided to test the self parking system the other day. It doesn't seem to detect lines in a parking lot, only physical cars via the sonar sensors. I was trying the setting to back into a parking space, but as I was holding down the button it tried to back into the car beside the spot so I cancelled. It might have been trying to back up to pull forward again, but I decided I didn't want to chance it. Anyone have experience with the system?

Had a similar experience the first and last time I tried it for back-in auto-parking….the truck almost auto backed-into a car in one of the adjacent stalls with no warning ….and, no collision auto-stop despite the proper settings. I followed the instructions in the manual to a “T”…..never again!

 

[RickLightning]

Simply ride the brake pedal lightly and stop if it gets too close.

For perpendicular parking, it will park next to a vehicle. If there are 10 empty spaces, then a vehicle, it will choose the space next to the vehicle. I would park 10 spaces away.

Same with parallel parking, it will park behind a vehicle, skipping empty spaces.

 

[LightningShow]

I used it once and it worked fine. It was a pretty tight spot, it actually did an impressive job.

 

[trev5150]

I used it once and it worked fine. It was a pretty tight spot, it actually did an impressive job.

That’s the key. It had to be a tight spot. It only seems to work if it has other vehicles to measure space from, according to the anecdotal evidence provided above.

 

[LightningShow]

That’s the key. It had to be a tight spot. It only seems to work if it has other vehicles to measure space from, according to the anecdotal evidence provided above.

Yeah, makes sense. Although you would think it could use the lines considering it has lane keeping capability.

 

[Ken]

Lane keeping uses the cameras the parking uses the sonar. I agree it would be nice to just park away from other cars

 

[trev5150]

Yeah, makes sense. Although you would think it could use the lines considering it has lane keeping capability.

Might be a contrast issue. The truck does really well on I-10 here in Tucson since there’s reflectors between the stripes, and the stripes have that metal flake like thing going on. Parking lot stripe quality is sketchy most of the time.

 

[TheBigBezo]

Tried this twice yesterday in a large parking lot with some open spots. I remembered reading this thread so I purposely went and found spots with a gap between two cars. The first attempt, it said it was ready before I had pulled forward enough, so I took back control when it appeared it was going to straight up back into the car in the spot over. Like it got close enough, when I took control back, the parking assist sensors were beeping about proximity. Not sure if the truck was going to put itself back into drive to adjust, but that was way too tight and would make anyone nervous. Second attempt was one vehicle and then a curb / light pole. I let Parking Assist take it straight to the curb, it was painfully obvious it was not going to work. Maybe I set it up to fail since there was a curb, but the Truck had no situational awareness the curb / light pole were there, it was ready to bounce the curb, it hit it pretty good lol before I pulled out and parked myself.

So far, not inspiring, it felt like the truck passed up multiple spots, it clearly was not seeing obstacles well. Maybe I gave it a bad set up with car-spot-curb, but car-spot-car was dangerously poor execution. I was surprised since reviews I thought I remembered reading had good things to say, but maybe I need to hit the local grocery story a bit more and see if I can't find what conditions the truck prefers.

 

[Jer]

Has worked fine for me perpendicular parking that is. It does get very close before it pulls the truck back out and straightens up, then backs up straight in. It for sure made me nervous the first time. It takes way too long to park, but works well in my opinion, not an option I personally need though.

 

[Joneii]

I tried it. It is too fast and aggressive for my taste, but it did work. Like some of the others mentioned, on backing it it takes an angle that will not work. Then it pulls forward (getting quite close to cars in the next aisle), adjusts and backs in. It splits the difference between the two vehicles without regard for the lines. The tolerances it uses are very close and it took me about three tries before I let it finish a park job because I was sure it was going to Ram the adjacent vehicles— it didn’t. All the same, the gray hairs I acquired in this experiment weren’t worth it. I’d much rather park myself and not suffer premature aging.

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