Long gone are the days of searching for your car in a parking deck.
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Audi will be showing its unique updates to its autonomous driving and parking system at the 2014 Consumer Electronics Show, CES, in January.
Last CES show, Audi revealed its self-driving car features, which Audi is calling it as “piloted driving and parking.” These features include heavy traffic driving and an autopilot system for parking.
Audi’s autonomous technology works by using ultrasonic sensors, radars and video cameras to detect the proximity of objects around it.
For Audi’s piloted parking technology, the automated system works with a mobile phone and an app where the driver parks the car outside a spot and turns on the app. The car then parks itself. When it’s time to leave, the driver selects the app and instructs it to exit the space and return to the driver.
The heavy traffic autonomous piloted driving technology is being developed further to drive at low, traffic jam-type speeds of up to 40 mph.
Pretty cool stuff, if I may say so. Should be interesting to see what updates they’ve made to this technology.
What do you think about piloted driving/parking? Is it something you’d use in your Audi?
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