Parallel Parking Assist - When?

[Matchbox]

Confession here. I did not answer all the survey questions on parking assist as I assume the R1T did not have it. Being old school, I assumed parking assist was the car would park itself. Now that I know what parking assist really means, I have been using it all the time since the beginning and love it. I just thought it was visual assist.

Parking was not even a though when deciding to buy the R1T.

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[Mellowyellow]

Do systems such as these work in tight spaces? Humble brag: I’ve parked regularly in NYC with inches on either side of me. Takes forever. Also I’m stubborn and refuse to pay for parking.

 

[Riviot]

The people have spoken. I shall kick rocks.

 

[NovemberBravo]

In the Out of Spec Rivian Engineering video, it was mentioned that they'd like the system to eventually have automated parking.

Obviously, take this with a grain of salt



Kyle asks James Philbin, Rivian's VP of Autonomy and AI, what the Gen 2 R1 is capable of long-term from a functional standpoint.

James replies (edited for clarity)
"We're working on opening up significantly more hands-free highways this year. We're also looking at an eyes-off feature next year.
I think longer term, imagining a system that is incredibly capable, driving more and more, meeting drivers where they want the autonomy to be.
Also looking at automated parking.
Over the very long term, personal L4 use cases, where your car can drop you off at the airport and go and park in a long-term lot."

 

[roketdog]

I’ve had a Ford 150 and Suburban so my R1S is an breeze to park. I have auto park on a Tesla but like someone else said, it’s way to slow. I would start some road rage if people were waiting on me.

 

[Riviot]

 

[GreenLightning]

C’mon now. Pull up to the parked car next to you. Crank the wheel hard right, back up, crank the wheel left when the mirror is parallel with the rear of the car, watch your wheel to the curb, pull forward and adjust slightly. Easy stuff.

the lazier we get with these ‘features’, the less skilled we become as humans

 

[Glembi2]

I’m convinced how you learned to parallel park is the controlling factor on whether you want a vehicle that can parallel park itself. I do not find parallel parking difficult but my better half and the kids do. They learned a technique that, to me, is just weird because you don’t use your mirrors - just turning the wheel lock to lock.

The overhead view is great for everything except parallel parking. Don’t get distracted by the display.

 

[Glembi2]

C’mon now. Pull up to the parked car next to you. Crank the wheel hard right, back up, crank the wheel left when the mirror is parallel with the rear of the car, watch your wheel to the curb, pull forward and adjust slightly. Easy stuff.

the lazier we get with these ‘features’, the less skilled we become as humans

That’s the approach that confuses me.

I pull up, start backing up until I can see the right front corner of the vehicle behind me in the driver side mirror, then turn the wheel clockwise and finish backing in

but if it works, it works. Being able to parallel park is better than the alternative

 

[ndmiller]

Was never announced, isn't coming before everyone forgets about this thread and in real life no-one uses this feature regularly enough to even discuss it.

I've used with a few brands over the last decade and other than the wow factor *my car parks itself!", it's a slow and useless feature same as park assist head or back in.

I can parallel park and have in the Rivian in one try as the cameras make it stupid simple. Both my daughters who learned to drive in the last 4 years can parallel park and back into spots without making anyone wait.

 

[Riviot]

Jesus H guys, I know how to parallel park! Y'all are missing the question, the answer was no, move on. This place is really getting overrun with a bunch of unhelpful D-bags.

How do I lock my own thread?

 

[COdogman]

Jesus H guys, I know how to parallel park! Y'all are missing the question, the answer was no, move on. This place is really getting overrun with a bunch of unhelpful D-bags.

How do I lock my own thread?

 

[CharonPDX]

It'll never happen on a Gen 1. Wouldn't be surprised to see it on a Gen 2 eventually.

Which seems ridiculous to me. My Prius (2004 retrofit with the Japan-market rear view camera and park assist that was available on Japan-market vehicles in 2003! - something that didn't come to the US Prius until years later) and my BMW i3 (2015) could do it with just a rear camera and ultrasonic parking sensors. Gen 1 should absolutely be capable of it. The BMW would even find the open spot. You just pressed the park-assist button while going down the road, have a light press on the accelerator pedal, and it would let you know when there was a parking spot open you would fit in, you let off the accelerator, then press-and-hold the parking button and it did the rest.

Both were kind of slow, but the BMW could cram itself into parking spots with so little clearance front and back I was amazed. And it always did it the first try, no "back and forth" that I always needed even with slightly bigger spaces. (Although that might have just been that I never got properly used to just how small the i3 actually is, and was leaving more room both front and back than I needed when doing my maneuver.)

 

[chingwodapigu]

Parallel Parking assist for me is painful to use on my Tesla because it is so slow, and so rarely even identifies a "suitable" parking space, but I could see it helping folks that are more challenged. What I would like to see is the summon feature so I can pull my car out of a tight parking space, when the genius next to me decides that I only need 6 inches to open my door to get in my car. I'm not talking about the stupid Tesla summon that crashes into things driving around a parking lot, just pulling a few feet forward or backward into a space, or out of a tight garage.

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