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Hey guys and welcome to the channel! My name is Nick O'Leary!
Now today we're looking at Mercedes-Benz Remote Parking Assist
and what you just saw there...that's some pretty cool tech!
I mean there was literally no one sat in the driving seat I was controlling the car
on my phone so that is pretty cool!
So I guess the question is why does this exist
because apart from being cool and showing off it does actually serve a purpose.
Well we've all looked at new models in the showroom before and some of us even have to
go to lengths of measuring the cars because they do sometimes increase in size over the years
but parking spaces and driveways unfortunately stay the same size.
So with that in mind Remote Parking Assist is designed to help manoeuvre a car out of
an extremely tight space where in some cases you may not have been able to open the door.
So guys of course the most important thing to get this going is to make sure you actually
have Remote Parking Assist in the first place so unfortunately it is only found on selected models
of Mercedes-Benz. I was lucky enough to get my hands on this car so this is one of the latest
S-class's that has this feature so I can show you all and make a video on how to set it up.
But yes unfortunately it is only found on selected models so is not available on every model
and it can't be added afterwards just because this has kind of upgraded sensors 360 degree cameras
and certain specifications and wireless receivers to actually make it happen in the first place.
But even though it's not on all models of Mercedes-Benz I always look on the positive side
you know the S-Class that I've always heard is the car that sets the trend from many many cars in
the future so the S-Class was actually the first car that had those double wide screen displays,
years and years ago! I can't remember when that came out but that would have been I don't know
maybe 2010-2012? That had the double widescreen display back then and it sets the bar for tech
that comes out in cars so even though your car may not have it now hopefully arrive in the future! I
mean my fingers are crossed anyway but if you know your car has Remote Park Assist great! So what you
just need to do is of course make sure that your car is linked to your Mercedes me account, the
usual things it's been verified by a Mercedes-Benz Dealership, your Terms of Use are accepted and
of course you've got the Mercedes me service actually switched on. So as it is a Mercedes
me service it is a chargeable service obviously make sure you have the license for that you can
purchase that from the Mercedes me store and if I remember the plans vary from I think there was
a 30 day one and then there was a 2 or 3 year one as well. But have a look in the store to be sure.
Now once all that's done the final thing you'll need to do is of course
link your phone to the car but that's not via Bluetooth so Bluetooth traditionally
is for your calls playing music off your phone and that sort of thing.
Now on Remote Park Assist there's a dedicated app for this so you have to go to the App Store,
download Remote Park Assist and then in the settings menu you'll find an option
kind of roughly in the area of "Settings", "Vehicle Settings" or "Assistance" and then
"Camera & Parking' in this sort of area this is where you'll find the words "Remote Parking
Assist" and then you'll be able to go in here and link the two up together.
As long as you've done all the above then of course then you'll be able to do
the Remote Parking Assist by standing on the outside and just show off to everyone really.
And speaking of showing off you've seen the free roam going forward and
backwards at the start of the video so how about an actual real life parking space?
Well you quite simply press the park assist button to initiate scanning the space and
just like cars with normal park assist, drive past the space you'd like to park in and wait
for the car to recognise it. Now one thing that I was super impressed by on the S-Class that I
was filming today, was that it was actually recognising the white lines on the floor!
So in normal park assist systems you'll find that the sensors actually only pick up objects and this
is why you have to have two cars on either side of an available space for the system to detect it
and in this car was actually picking up the white lines so I thought let's do this one!
So you tap on the space you want to park in and then instead of doing manoeuvre in the car you
tap the top left button which is the Remote Park Assist button and then from this point
onwards you do the rest outside via your phone because the cars already "scanned the space".
So you open up the app, tap connect draw the lines to start the engine and then of course
you can choose to do the free roam like at the start of the video or do the parking manoeuvre
that you've just scanned so in this case I did the parking manoeuvre and this is the head turner
you're walking alongside the car on the outside and holding your thumb on the phone screen
and then tilt it to the side so to a landscape position to get it to go back and as soon as
you turn it to the vertical position, the parking manoeuvre stops for safety of course.
And of course if someone walks in front of the car it will stop as well
but as you do have a slightly different view as of course you're on the outside
it is best to keep an eye on any cars around as well just in case one comes up behind you
because they may get a bit spooked that no one's actually in the driving seat!
Of course you do have full control on your actual phone
and that is how you do a Remote Park Assist on Mercedes!
And there we go guys that concludes this week's video on Remote Parking Assist on Mercedes-Benz.
Would you use this feature let me know in the comments section down below if your car had this
would you use this and show off to friends family or would you genuinely make use of
it to get out of those tight parking spaces so let me know in the comments down below.
Huge shout out to Sandown Mercedes-Benz and especially Mercedes-Benz of Guildford
this is one of their demonstrators so I wouldn't have been able to
make this video if it weren't for them so huge shout out to them.
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