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hi guys and welcome to my youtube
channel this week we are looking at
mercedes-benz parking assistance systems
now they are formerly known as active
parking assist or parking pilots there's
a couple of extra ones as well
parktronic but they can actually broken
up into a couple of sections so you've
got the traditional system which I'll
run through and then there's the new
system which features a button to to get
the system going I'll explain how they
work now to show you how this works I do
need a bit of space so I've actually
commanded the car park next door to show
you how it works we'll start with the
classic Park Assist system first and
then we'll move on to the newer stuff
the guys so to tell the difference
between what Park Assist system you have
you'd be looking kind of in this area
here to see if you have this button now
this button is on the new Park Assist
systems if you don't have that button
then this is the video that you'll be
wanting to watch now we've identified
which Park Assist system you have this
particular car doesn't have the buttons
so this is the classic one so what we're
going to do is drive past the space just
over here and you'll be looking if
you're under 19 miles now there'll be a
blue p on the screen in front of you now
after you driven past the space if it
was big enough you'll have a white arrow
up here just next to that blue P like
that after you've done that next thing
you do is come to a stop and you'll then
put the car into reverse so I pop that
into reverse now and on the screen in
front of us now we have a question start
parking assist you want the car to start
helping with parking and then you'll use
the steering wheel buttons here okay or
back to start it or cancel it now you
could just ignore it and get parking
yourself but if you want help if you
press ok now the Park Assist system is
active so on the screen that says
parking assist active accelerate and
brake observe surroundings so obviously
make sure there's no one around norms go
walk in front of the car and that kind
of thing because ultimately whoever sat
in this seat here it was is responsible
for what happens but the system is very
safe because notice even though it's on
right this second we're not actually
moving and the reason for that is
because my foot is on the brake pedal so
if I slowly take my foot off the brake
pedal you'll see that will start to go
but if I put my foot back on the brake
we stop so that's the main thing
whoever's sat here is in full control of
the system so let's take my foot off
really slowly and see will move slowly
but more importantly the steering wheel
will start moving all by itself but
don't forget I'm doing control I'm doing
the speed so if I put my foot on the
brake it stops so let's continue going
now we're going to go at a very funny
angle here to start because this is also
a Bey Park and on the screen here we're
going to have a message come up that
says put it into drive so I'll do that
now he'll spin this way and basically
you just line us up in the space then it
says select R on the screen so then you
do that again using the brake pedal to
control its speed I can make it go
slower for wish or a bit quicker and
it'll basically put you into the space
you just watching mirrors as it does its
thing and it put you evenly between each
car you can see the saw one just here
now and it put you evenly in between the
two spaces just like that pretty cool
now on the Mercedes Benz with the new
Park Assist system it's actually
activated using a button in the center
console just here as I said it looks a
bit like this now to start the Park
Assist system only do is actually press
that button and over on the left screen
the center screen you basically just
follow all the instructions that appear
on the screen and the first thing it
says it says drive forwards to search
for parking space so I'll do just that
now it says searching for parking space
so I'm going to drive past the same
space and have a listen
when you hear that sound it means it's
sound of space so the next thing it says
stop the car which I've just done and
then it says please choose parking space
and confirm well there's only one and
it's that one just there so I'm going to
use the wheel here to control this I'm
gonna press ENTER on that one and then
it says please choose the parking
direction and confirm now this new
system this is one of the new things it
can do it can do forward as in Drive you
in or reverse you it in a bit like the
other one so just to keep it the same
I'm going to go ahead and do a reverse
one and then it says please engage
reverse gear thus a usual thing just pop
into reverse and then it says active
parking system operation be ready to
brake so again use your brake pedal to
slow it up if I put my foot on the brake
pedal we stop but if I take my foot off
it will it'll go and it will turn the
steering wheel and put you back into the
space
now one extra thing that this car does
which is an improvement over the
previous system is that when you get to
this point it'll change gear for you
haven't touched it and it's going
forward all by itself so that's one of
the differences that it will do and then
it will look it'll go backwards now and
I haven't touched it and then it will
just line you up again just watch your
mirrors just make sure you're happy with
it doing it and then they'll line you up
and put you literally in between the two
cars now I can go back just a little bit
more there we go perfect now it's really
important to note that there is a way of
canceling the Park Assist operation so
say we drive past the space just like
before and the car scans space and we'll
click enter and get the Park Assist
system to go there we go so it's just
like before same thing we're now going
into the space but this time I'm going
to cancel it halfway through it's really
really simple in the studies men's cars
all you do is grab this wheel here and
the whole thing stops now I'm in full
control of the car again so the whole
system's canceled
now mercedes-benz park systems are
really really good however if there are
empty spaces like this it won't work
many because the Park Assist system uses
ultrasound through the parking sensors
so you have to have a gap in between two
cars just like this here
for it to actually work now also if the
gap is a little bit bigger say it has
two spaces with cars either side a bit
like this one then it won't work so you
have to have one space in between two
cars for it to work and the amazing
thing about that Park Assist system is
it's exactly the same for parallel
parking the car knows the difference
between a bay parkway-bound
lever perfect gas well that concludes
this week's video on the city's bends
parking assistance systems I hopefully
you've learnt a few things today because
suddenly quite a few cars can park
themselves but not many people know
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