Ford Active Park Assist will help you parallel parking if you are pretty much suck at it. The Ford Company just won another award for 2009 “Best of What’s New” for the Active Park Assist technology. The technology helps you maneuver your car into those tight parallel parking spaces. This is the third straight year that Ford has been recognized with a Best of What’s New Award. Active Park Assist (good), Inflatable Car Seat Belt (good), and hmm….Shape Memory Alloy Could Turn Exhaust Heat to Energy by GM (bad.)
The Active Park Assist uses sensors in the front and rear of the car to help guide your car into to a parking space. The sensors will give feedback to let you know if your car fits in that tight parking space or not. Not only the Active Park Assist helps in parallel parking, it also helps you park in down-hill situation so your car doesn’t roll into other people’s cars. Lets face it, my old parents would really need one of these right now.
We know it got a bunch of sensors in front and back of the car, but how does it work?
-First press a button to activate the sensors, then let the steering system takes over and steers your car into the parking lot. It’s a no-brainer.
Did I miss second, third, fourth, and conclusion? Of course, you are still responsible for shifting, gas, brake, beware of pedestrian and on-coming traffic. And you thought that it was going to be smooth sailing.
So far, the Ford Active Park Assist will be available as an optional feature on 2010 models such as Ford Escape, Ford Flex, Lincoln MKS, Lincoln MKT and Mercury Mariner. Watch the video below of the Active Park Assist in action.
Next up, hands free driving. Can’t wait to nap on my way to work!
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that would be hilarious if someone used this on the road test i bet the person thats grading you would be like wtf
my mom needs this
Hahaha speaking of this, I saw a guy across the road who was parking using Park Assist and we were in front of wal-mart, so there’s a bit of a crowd. He honks the horn and holds his hands up out of window and did the parallel all perfect and people were clapping thinking it was magic, lmao.