# BMW park assist **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussion\ **Created:** [January 17, 2014, 5:52am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/bmw-park-assist/83194 "2014-01-17T05:52:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![keith](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/keith/32/5518_2.png) [@keith](https://community.cartalk.com/u/keith)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2014, 5:52am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/bmw-park-assist/83194/1 "2014-01-17T05:52:55Z")
Obviously misused and misunderstood, but funny none the less. [http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2014/01/parallel-parking-too-close-for-comfort/](http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2014/01/parallel-parking-too-close-for-comfort/) ---
**Author:** ![Barkydog](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/barkydog/32/2470_2.png) [@Barkydog](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Barkydog)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2014, 6:36am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/bmw-park-assist/83194/2 "2014-01-17T06:36:39Z")
Does not look too much warse than the average parking lot. My wifes former van got pushed up onto a 3 ft landscaping boulder by a fed ex truck. ---
**Author:** ![David\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/eada6e/32.png) [@David\_L](https://community.cartalk.com/u/David_L)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2014, 11:37pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/bmw-park-assist/83194/3 "2014-01-17T23:37:07Z")
Back in 1970, my roomate and I watched a car in an icy parking lot do one of those really slow, yet unstoppable, slides sideways into a parallel parking space. The space was way too short to get into by regular parallel parking. The driver got out, looked at the six inches of clearance in the front and back, shook his head and went into the dorm (what else could he do?) It was by far the fanciest bit of parking I’ve ever seen. ---
**Author:** ![Whitey](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/whitey/32/24680_2.png) [@Whitey](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Whitey)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2014, 11:40pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/bmw-park-assist/83194/4 "2014-01-17T23:40:21Z")
I always wanted to try this: ---
**Author:** ![Whitey](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/whitey/32/24680_2.png) [@Whitey](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Whitey)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2014, 11:42pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/bmw-park-assist/83194/5 "2014-01-17T23:42:16Z")
I’m really enjoying the comments section of that article. ---
**Author:** ![ok4450](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e9bcb4/32.png) [@ok4450](https://community.cartalk.com/u/ok4450)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2014, 11:58pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/bmw-park-assist/83194/6 "2014-01-17T23:58:49Z")
Operator error possibly due to distractions and confusing the feet. He must have had a pretty good running start at it based on the part about jumping the mound and colliding with a car parked some distance away. ---
**Author:** ![bing](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/bing/32/4619_2.png) [@bing](https://community.cartalk.com/u/bing)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2014, 3:04am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/bmw-park-assist/83194/7 "2014-01-18T03:04:13Z")
Yet BMW says that car did not have that option and even if it did, there is no connection to the accelerator. Me thinks the driver is trying to duck responsibility. ---
**Author:** ![PvtPublic](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/pvtpublic/32/13089_2.png) [@PvtPublic](https://community.cartalk.com/u/PvtPublic)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2014, 3:27am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/bmw-park-assist/83194/8 "2014-01-18T03:27:49Z")
The Parking spaces are not even parallel parking they are front or back in. Driver error. ---
**Author:** ![db4690](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/db4690/32/2583_2.png) [@db4690](https://community.cartalk.com/u/db4690)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2014, 4:27am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/bmw-park-assist/83194/9 "2014-01-18T04:27:24Z")
If you can’t even back up into a clearly marked parking spot without ending up on top of the car next to you, you should have a lifetime ban on your driving priviledges ---
**Author:** ![jtsanders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c2a13f/32.png) [@jtsanders](https://community.cartalk.com/u/jtsanders)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2014, 10:46am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/bmw-park-assist/83194/10 "2014-01-18T10:46:52Z")
Have you seen the Dr Pepper commercial where the little girl does a donut on her bike into a “parking spot”? Amazing. ---
**Author:** ![jesmed1](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/jesmed1/32/2097_2.png) [@jesmed1](https://community.cartalk.com/u/jesmed1)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2014, 10:55am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/bmw-park-assist/83194/11 "2014-01-18T10:55:29Z")
The ABC news story says the driver’s infant son was in the vehicle. Doesn’t take much to imagine what the real distraction was. Kid’s in the back seat strapped into a car sear, dad turns around to reach for the dropped sippy cup, hits the gas by mistake, and is too embarrassed to admit it. ---
**Author:** ![doubleclutch](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/doubleclutch/32/1281_2.png) [@doubleclutch](https://community.cartalk.com/u/doubleclutch)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2014, 12:44am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/bmw-park-assist/83194/12 "2014-01-19T00:44:25Z")
America really should have a higher standard for driver licensing. ---
**Author:** ![bing](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/bing/32/4619_2.png) [@bing](https://community.cartalk.com/u/bing)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2014, 6:12am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/bmw-park-assist/83194/13 "2014-01-19T06:12:05Z")
Yeah well, they’re called “drivers licenses” not “parking licenses”. ---
**Author:** ![bscar2](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/bscar2/32/2468_2.png) [@bscar2](https://community.cartalk.com/u/bscar2)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2014, 6:26pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/bmw-park-assist/83194/14 "2014-01-19T18:26:45Z")
wonder if the guy will get charged with falsifying a report since his car doesn’t have the park assist since he sited that as the cause ---
**Author:** ![the\_same\_mountainbike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@the\_same\_mountainbike](https://community.cartalk.com/u/the_same_mountainbike)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2014, 1:51am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/bmw-park-assist/83194/15 "2014-01-22T01:51:29Z")
Maybe his wife was with him? Does that qualify as “park assist”? ---
**Author:** ![Tony\_Carlos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Tony\_Carlos](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Tony_Carlos)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2014, 9:33pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/bmw-park-assist/83194/16 "2014-01-23T21:33:43Z")
How does the article get off stating a parking assistant is at error? The car didn’t have that feature! Anyone wonder why self-driving cars have yet to make an appearance on our roads? ---
**Author:** ![jesmed1](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/jesmed1/32/2097_2.png) [@jesmed1](https://community.cartalk.com/u/jesmed1)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2014, 8:36am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/bmw-park-assist/83194/17 "2014-01-24T08:36:07Z")
@Tony, the article didn’t “state” that the parking assistant was at fault. It said the parking assistant was “blamed” for the accident by the driver. Big difference. And the article further cited BMW’s statement that the parking assistant does not control the vehicle’s speed. ---
**Author:** ![keith](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/keith/32/5518_2.png) [@keith](https://community.cartalk.com/u/keith)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2014, 10:11am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/bmw-park-assist/83194/18 "2014-01-24T10:11:11Z")
Guy’s, I only posted this for the humor. I didn’t intend for anyone to get in an argument over its merits or a technical dissertation on parking assist. But if you want to go at it, go ahead, be my guest.