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LOL @ Lexus LS460's auto-parking featureThis is a discussion on LOL @ Lexus LS460's auto-parking feature within the Lexus forums, part of the Japanese Cars category; http://www.automobilemag.com/multime...ark/index.html Looks more complicated to tell it to park then to actually do it yourself...... |
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10-29-2006, 11:45 PM
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  | LOL @ Lexus LS460's auto-parking feature http://www.automobilemag.com/multime...ark/index.html Looks more complicated to tell it to park then to actually do it yourself... |
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10-30-2006, 12:47 AM
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| Re: LOL @ Lexus LS460's auto-parking feature Wow, that was amazing. You have to be really lazy to let the car pull into a parking lot spot for you....and press all the buttons. I think the were exagerrating a little bit though. I think its more useful for tight parallel parking situations. Seriously though, encouraging the unskilled driver to be even more unskilled...great.
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10-30-2006, 01:01 AM
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| Re: LOL @ Lexus LS460's auto-parking feature I think this is what the future holds for top-level luxury vehicles - "amenities" that consist of contrived ways for the car to take the place of human intuition. A self-parking system is no more a luxury for me than an automatic door closer an automated restaurant finder. |
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10-30-2006, 01:41 AM
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| Re: LOL @ Lexus LS460's auto-parking feature hahaha. Too funny. Props to lexus for coming out with somethign before the Germans...To bad its utterly useless. I like the guy who's like "WILL YOU TURN THIS F###### MUSIC OFF!"
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10-30-2006, 03:39 AM
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| Re: LOL @ Lexus LS460's auto-parking feature As usual, there's a flame war on Autospies about this: http://www.autospies.com/news/Automo...-to-park-9589/
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10-30-2006, 06:07 AM
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| Re: LOL @ Lexus LS460's auto-parking feature It's new technology, I don't think it's fair to criticise it so quickly. The limitations of the system, I reckon, is to have perfectly spaced parking spaces so it can do its thing... It has not reached the point where it can park into any parking space, yet.
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| Re: LOL @ Lexus LS460's auto-parking feature It's a very interesting feature and one that i have seen work (there's another video around the net) but in all honesty i don't need this feature, i'll happily park the car myself. |
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10-30-2006, 07:51 AM
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| Re: LOL @ Lexus LS460's auto-parking feature Just yesterday, I parked the E320 inbetween two cars and it was pretty tight. All I used was Parktronic, my side mirrors and my spacial intelligence. 
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10-30-2006, 10:19 AM
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| Re: LOL @ Lexus LS460's auto-parking feature Wow, some of the people in that thread are rediculous. If you guys have time to kill and need a laugh, go read that thread. There are some good points brought up though, but then other people just resort to personal attacks as a response to it. For now we probably don't need this technology, but I'm thinking once more R&D goes into this, most cars will have this feature to use someday. Just, make sure 2 people don't do it at the same time near each other, or 3 people in a tight parking lot...otherwise...
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