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The fact that we don't have reliable, fully automated parking yet is bizarre. I'd love a solution that automatically parallel parks for me, and a computer with sensors around the vehicle should be able to do a better job. Plus, the problem is of limited scope, and low speed, so you don't have to deal with most of the potential issues and dangers with full self driving on a road.

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BMWs have had that for quite a while. My 2016 5 series does it perfectly 100% of the time. It even gets into some spots that I consider way too short, but it surprises me.

I use it all the time, it’s quick and easy.

Does it work if the spot is full of snow and ice?

If the snow isn’t high enough to trigger the parking sensors - yeah.

My 2015 Model S does parallel parking between two other cars quite well. It will also reverse into the space between two cars parked perpendicular to the road.

Ford does that with Active Park Assist.

Mercedes too, here's a demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hz4Bm2jui-c

Also Peugeot/Citroen and VW/Audi. Probably all major car manufacturers have it by now?

Now that I see your list of manufacturers, I can only think: “of course, manufacturers don’t do squat in a car, Bosh, or some other equipment company did it and sold it to all the manufacturers”

That's pretty typical. And sometimes when the car manufacturer gets particularly good at parts subsystems, they spin that off into a separate company. E.g. Delphi. It's nice, because then we see awesome things like magnetic ride show up on more than just GM performance cars.

Tesla doesn't have it. Many other automakers do offer that functionality on their luxury lines.

This is weird to me because there's another comment reply to me saying that their Model S has this functionality.

So it looks like it's more common than I thought, but also of mixed availability/awareness?

Tesla has autopark on all their models. It is terrible. I can barely ever activate it because it doesn't recognize parking spaces. It will curb your wheels. It's very slow. I'm certain that if I used it on a daily basis it would have collided with something by now.

Tesla does have self-park but it's only enabled if you have paid for the FSD upgrade. I have it. It works. Slowly, but it works.

Been optional on Toyota Prius for a few years now as "Intelligent Park Assist", I use it all the time and it works great.

Tesla does have it. My Model Y will quickly and reliably park itself in almost any type of space I pull up to.

My 2018 Chevy Volt has automated park assist for parallel parking.

Then again I haven't used it again since it backed into the side of a parking garage and scraped a body panel :-)

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