- One thing that I think we all can relate to is the
struggles and the frustration with parking your car.
Whether it be at the airport, or at the mall,
or at a shopping center, sometimes the worst part
about going and doing these tasks is trying
to find a place to park.
Well Mercedes and Bosch have partnered up,
and apparently they have a potential solution
to those headaches.
They can get you on to do those things that you wanna do.
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Today we are in Stuttgart, Germany
at the Mercedes-Benz museum, where they have the
pilot running for cars that will park themselves,
and so, I want to see how this thing works.
First, I need to figure out how to park this car
because this is not the pilot car.
This is the Mercedes museum that we're at right now,
that's why there's lot of Mercedes and like
Mercedes in glass containers.
For this simulation, this is the car that Daimler
and Bosch are using to test it out.
It's a Mercedes AMG 63.
Now this one is all retrofitted inside so
that it can connect to the lidar that is all around.
You can see right here there's towers right here
and right there, so instead of just having all
of the cars retrofitted in a way with all the sensors
and everything, you know that cars automatically
park themselves, a lot of them do.
I've been in rental cars that are Fords and Toyotas,
Mercedes will park themselves, our Tesla will
park itself.
The difference is, you're in there, and you are
still responsible for what it's doing.
So the concept is, rather than driving around,
trying to park your car, you pull up, you park
your car in the designated self-park area,
and then you pull out your phone app, and you push
a button that says park the car.
I just stuck a GoPro right here inside the car,
so you can see the steering wheel and
to see how it works.
Nobody's going to be in this car and we're going
to push the app and tell it to park.
'Kay, we're going to do it, guys.
There it goes.
It's all by itself.
There's the GoPro inside of it.
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Okay, here comes a car.
There's some lidar sensors that are right there also.
Are you seeing this?
Nobody's even in the car right now, it's just driving.
A lot of people might be saying this is kind
of ridiculous because why don't you just park
your car yourself?
I like letting the car drive by itself.
I know that I would like letting my car park by itself.
We're in 2018 right now, like why not have
our car be smart and do things like this?
And just like that, the car just came upstairs
and parked by itself.
One of the areas that I think would be cool,
and that they're working on right now,
is when you think about all these cars
that are being manufactured, usually when
a car is manufactured, I know I've been
in a few car manufacture plants, sometimes it
takes less than a day from start to finish
of a car coming off the line, but as soon as
the car is finished somebody has to physically
get inside of it and drive it and park it
to where it needs to go, but with this technology
I can see that working really, really well
and so does Mercedes-Benz.
Once they're off of the line and they're all
manufactured, first time that it would actually
drive would be all by itself and it would pull out,
and just go and park where it needs to go.
I wanna be in the car.
Nobody was in it, which was definitely cool.
The car's totally off right now.
Let's pretend that we just landed, just went
through security, got your baggage at the airport,
you know you're going to be walking out to the garage,
you want your car to be ready, not just like warm for you.
We are now in the car, there's no driver in this car.
Garrett's in the front seat to monitor it,
and we've got the app, so you just push pick up.
Your car will arrive in one minute, 43 seconds.
There's a countdown.
Car's driving by itself.
Not just driving by itself, but there's no
human sitting over it looking at it right now.
There are some WiFi boxes that are inside
the parking garage that are sending the signal
from the lidar sensors to the WiFi, which automates
it all and looks at it, and then speaks
to the car, and tells it where to go.
Hi, we're doing a little test at my request,
I'm like, what happens if you step in front of this thing?
What's it going to do if somebody just walks in front of it?
Garrett is wearing his safety vest, he's going
to stand in front of it, and then if somebody
runs in front of it, it'll do an abrupt stop.
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And then it just keeps on going.
Here's my next brilliant idea.
I have a red football or soccer ball.
What happens if a ball goes in front of it?
It doesn't even know that a ball's about to come.
Oh, it stopped, yes.
So we've seen that even a ball that's that size,
super small, it's able to see it and sense it and stop.
That should make you feel pretty comfortable about it.
So this is the car.
That was a lot of fun.
A lot of you might be asking what is the time frame
when might something like this be available?
Most likely the first cars that are rolling
out will be 2020.
As with everything with technology
with Mercedes-Benz, a lot of the newer cars
once they start coming out, a lot of the other
cars should be equipped with this.
So Mercedes-Benz and Bosch are the ones
that are pioneering this program together.
It'll most likely happen in garages
that are highly dense garages like airports
and car rental places, things like that,
where the cars need to get in there tight.
It'll start with the Mercedes-Benz vehicles
because they're the ones that pioneered the program,
but it's not going to be an exclusive thing
just to Mercedes for the future.
It's going to be opened up to all car manufacturers.
The way that Mercedes-Benz feels about this
is that if more auto manufacturers are
producing cars that will talk to the lidar and auto-park,
it's going to benefit the entire system as a whole.
If you think you're going to come out here
and check it out by yourself and watch it,
it's not really something that's open to the public.
We just got an exclusive sneak peak because we
were already here destroying an S-Class seat,
which was really cool if you haven't seen that,
check it out.
I hope you enjoyed seeing all of the different
things from Stuttgart, Germany and I had a blast.
Let me know what your favorite thing was
about the trip to Mercedes-Benz headquarters,
and if I came back, what would you like
to see next time.
Thanks a lot.
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