Parking a car in parallel is a nightmare for many drivers, but with limited parking space, pulling off a car into a tiny space is a vital skill. A new technology arises that cars can park themselves. Instead of struggling to maneuver your car back and forth, you simply press a button, sit back, and relax, the car can park itself. This technology is used for collision avoidance systems and ultimately in self-driving cars.
Most automakers had started marketing in self-parking technology. Parallel parking is often the most feared part of the driver’s test, people who live in big cities may have to do it every day. Removing the difficulty, stress and uncertainty of this chore is very appealing.
The difficulty of parallel parking leads to a lot of minor dents and scratches to the car. Self-parking technology would prevent many of these mishaps. It can also save money, since you won’t have to worry about insurance claims for parking-related damage.
Self-parking Technology – Working
Self-parking cars currently on the market are not completely autonomous, but they do make parallel parking much easier. The driver still regulates the speed of the vehicle by pressing and releasing the brake pedal. Once the process begins, the on-board computer system take over the steering wheel.
The car moves forward into position beside the front car, and a signal lets the driver know when he should stop. Then the driver shifts the car into reverse and releases the brake slightly to begin moving backward. Using the power steering system, the computer turns the wheel and perfectly maneuvers the car into the parking space. When the car has backed far enough into the space, another signal lets the driver know that he should stop and shift the car into drive. The car pulls forward as the wheels adjust to maneuver it into the space. A signal tells the driver when parking is complete.
These self-parking systems have different ways of sensing the objects around the car. Some have sensors distributed around the front and rear bumpers of the car, these sensors transmit signals, which bounce back from objects around the car. Other sensors uses the amount of time that those signals to return back which depicts the location of the objects. Others systems have cameras mounted onto the bumpers or use radar to detect objects. However, The end result is the same.
To conclude, self-parking system seems luxury at the moment. A car that can take control of the wheel to park itself was actually the next step in the evolution of automotive technology.
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