Source: YouTube-YouCar
Imagine never having to look for a parking space ever again, but the
car finds it for you. Audi has demonstrated a new self-parking technology at
the Consumer Electronics Show in January 2013. By using a specially designed
smartphone app, a driver tells the car to park.
It will autonomously drive away on its own and find an empty parking
space and then park itself. Later, the driver tells the car to pick him/her up
via app, and the car will arrive in front of the driver by itself. This system is operated by twelve ultrasound
sensors and four video cameras. Also, the central computer provides available
parking spaces and other parking structure layouts. Audi says that the system
will be fully developed and commercially available in the next decade.
Still, many questions remain unanswered. What if the car cannot find
the parking space and wanders around? That can be great for a driver who takes
only few minutes to run errands and needs the car in front of him/her shortly,
but it can be problematic for those who aren’t. What if the car gets towed away
or stolen? This can be problematic, seriously. However, Audi’s technological
approach is great, and I’m definitely looking forward to see it with further
improvement.
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