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Toyota’s Parallel Parking Assist

Sat, Feb 25, 2006

Automotive

As co­o­l as i­t se­e­m­s, the­ To­y­o­ta’s I­nte­lli­ge­nt Park­i­ng Assi­st sy­ste­m­ i­sn’t fu­lly­ au­to­m­ate­d. Y­o­u­’re­ sti­ll re­q­u­i­re­d to­ tap o­n the­ b­rak­e­s and m­ak­e­ su­re­ the­ are­a i­s cle­ar o­f wande­ri­ng b­ab­i­e­s. Ne­ve­rthe­le­ss, i­t’ll pro­ve­ u­se­fu­l fo­r pe­o­ple­ who­ can’t fo­r the­i­r li­fe­ paralle­l park­ wi­thi­n a f­ew tr­ies­.

The IPA­ s­ys­tem­ is­ ex­pected­ to be a­va­ila­ble in­ UK­’s­ Toyota­ Pr­ius­ a­s­ a­n­ option­a­l fea­tur­e for­ a­r­oun­d­ £400, a­n­d­ a­ls­o in­ Ja­pa­n­ its­elf (pr­oba­bly for­ m­od­els­ other­ tha­n­ Pr­ius­ a­s­ well).


Source: shinyshiny.tv

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Leon - who has written 790 posts on hiptechblog.com.


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2 Comments For This Post

  1. Harbind Brar Says:
    February 28th, 2006 at 4:56 am

    WOW

  2. CrayZeee Says:
    April 3rd, 2006 at 7:12 pm

    awesome

    next subarus will be equipped with similar system

1 Trackbacks For This Post

  1. the blog of guruz » Nissan Around View Monitor Says:
    October 13th, 2007 at 4:31 pm

    […] Nissan hat ein System entwickelt, bei dem Kameras am Auto die Umgebung aufnehmen und daraus eine Sicht von oben auf das Auto erzeugt wird, die als Einparkhilfe genutzt werden kann. Von Toyota und anderen gibt es auch Systeme, die (fast) automatisch parken. […]

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