Now if you've ever had the luxury of using a 360° camera,
you'll know that they make parking an absolute breeze.
But this right here...
Is some pretty dope tech!
Hey guys and welcome to the channel my name is Nick O'Leary and
today we're having a look at the 360° camera found on selected Mercedes-Benz.
Now for those of you who haven't heard of this before and
aren't sure about what it is or what it does,
Let's just very quickly recap and show you what it is before I move
on to some tips about how you can get the most out of that particular system.
So what is it what is a 360° camera?
Well in most modern Mercedes-Benz these days they have at least a reversing camera and sometimes
in high definition providing the ultimate clarity when you're reversing into a space.
But on some larger cars like this one for example, they feature a 360° camera.
And one of those basically means you have more cameras dotted all about the car
providing a more kind of overall image and visual element of when you're parking.
So for example if I lock the car here,
you can just about see under here there is a camera on the driver's wing mirror.
There's the same on the passenger side as well,
you've got that same reversing camera at the rear which pops out of the Mercedes-Benz badge.
And there's another one at the very very front just
underneath the Mercedes-Benz badge as well so a total of 4 cameras.
Now what's really really clever is the multimedia system then takes
those four cameras and puts them onto the screen, superimposes a car over the top of
it and then you've got a bird's eye view showing you exactly everything around you
enabling you to see things at the front the rear and even the sides as well.
Perfect!
So this brings me very neatly onto a couple of tips with this particular system the 360° camera.
Now to turn it on it does depend on your
year of Mercedes-Benz but it's usually in one of two places.
So if it's from a few years ago, that button to turn it will usually be over in this area here
there's a dedicated 360 camera button, press that and then it will show you the image on the screen.
Now if you have one of the more modern Mercedes-Benz,
that button is located in the middle down here and it's a picture of a "P" with a
camera on it as well so press this and then you'll kind of see this up on the screen.
And then of course you can choose your preferred camera angle so...
And there's a few!
So you can choose from between a front wide view,
a normal front view,
a rear wide view,
a rear view
and then one of my personal favourites which is the one that views your alloy wheels!
Now depending again on your model some have two views so one for the front and one for the rear
and then some also just combine the two together.
So in this particular car it's combined, when you press this button you can clearly see your
wheels on there meaning that when you park near a kerb it makes it just a bit easier.
In fact let's run a task!
So my task today is to park as close to the kerb as possible
firstly without the 360° camera and then try it with that camera.
Just to see the difference and see how close to the kerb I can get.
Now of course I don't want to mess this up because this car is about £75k
and these wheels look rather expensive so let's give it a go!
Let's have a look, see how I did!
Yeah I'm pretty sure I can get closer...
Right let's try this with the 360° camera...
There we go!
Aaand tuck it in...
Let's have a look!
Ah! That's much better!
It works!
Now all of this is really really cool but what about next gen tech?
Well this is where I turn to the Mercedes-Benz
S-class which if you didn't know is Mercedes-Benz's flagship model
meaning it has gadgets and tech out of this world compared to the rest of the range.
But this 360° camera on this car....is insane.
Have a look at this!
It'll do a bird's eye view just like before but you can
actually move the camera in 3D space around it.
How cool is that?
Oh and just for good measure if you pop your indicators on
it'll actually show you the indicators on the screen. Of course!
You've got to love Mercedes-Benz's attention to detail.
Of course with the many many camera angles just like before.
And although I haven't spent a huge amount of time on this new MBUX multimedia system in this car,
I believe you can actually get the camera to come on automatically at designated GPS positions.
So say for example you had like a
driveway or something like that that was quite tight and getting your car in.
You can program it so the camera comes
on automatically every time you get near your driveway.
That's some pretty cool tech!
And there we go guys that concludes this week's video on the 360° camera in your Mercedes-Benz.
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