What's cool here is that it is so close to production. Autonomous "valet-style" parking as showcased by Stanford in the video below suddenly doesn't seem so far away!
Monday, October 10, 2011
Valeo Park4U
One natural step as autonomous vehicle functions evolve and cars become more and more connected are functions like the Valeo Park4U showed in the video below. This takes park-assist to the next step by allowing the user to initiate a parking maneuver form outside the vehicle using a smartphone.
As with many of these functions, it's not so much of an engineering problem as a legal problem...
