When active, Park Pilot Assist controls the car with high precision, allowing you to park in tight spaces. It works for both parallel and perpendicular parking, as well as when leaving a parking space.
Important
Read everything
Read all information about the function before using it. It is important to know its proper use and limitations.
Detection of surroundings
Park Pilot Assist relies on the car's ability to detect its surroundings by using information from the parking sensors.
During Park Pilot Assist manoeuvres
Your car controls acceleration, braking and steering during parking manoeuvres. Even though Park Pilot Assist takes over the driving-related tasks of parking, you must still monitor the feature and its manoeuvres. This means that as long as you agree with what Park Pilot Assist is doing, you don't need to do anything to speed up, slow down or steer your car. However, you should always be ready to retake control of parking if you feel you need to.
Parking in a parking space
You can use Park Pilot Assist during parallel and perpendicular parking. When you activate Park Pilot Assist, it identifies available spaces close to the car and presents one of them in the centre display. After confirming the suggested space to park in, you can start the parking manoeuvre by pressing down slightly on the accelerator pedal and letting go of the steering wheel. Your car then controls steering, braking and acceleration to park. Supervise the manoeuvre and follow any instructions provided in the centre display.
Leaving a parking space
You can use Park Pilot Assist to manoeuvre out of a parallel parking space. When you activate Park Pilot Assist, the car suggests an exit direction. After confirming the exit direction, press down slightly on the accelerator pedal and let go of the steering wheel to start the Park Assist Pilot manoeuvre. Your car then controls steering, braking and acceleration to leave the parking space. Supervise the manoeuvre and follow any instructions provided in the centre display.
Warning
Pay attention
When using Park Pilot Assist, you must keep the same level of attention to your surroundings as if parking without assistance. Immediately take full control of the car if necessary.
Driver responsibility
The driver is always responsible for driving safely and in accordance with traffic rules and regulations. Park Pilot Assist is not a substitution for the driver's attention and judgement.
Limitations
Park Pilot Assist cannot handle all traffic, weather and road conditions. Read the separate manual section covering detection of car surroundings and traffic before using features that rely on these capabilities.
Using the accelerator during manoeuvres
You need to use the accelerator pedal during parking manoeuvres even though you can't control the speed of the car. By pressing the accelerator down slightly1, but not quite halfway, you signal to your car that you want the manoeuvre to continue.
Finding the right amount of pressure to put on the accelerator can be tricky the first few times. When Park Pilot Assist starts, don't change your pressure on the accelerator too much unless you want to pause the ongoing parking manoeuvre. It might be tempting to try to speed up the manoeuvre by pressing more on the accelerator, but this will pause the parking. Letting up too much on the accelerator pedal also pauses any ongoing manoeuvres.
Stopping Park Pilot Assist
You can always stop an ongoing manoeuvre. Depending on how you do it, Park Pilot Assist either pauses or ends the manoeuvre.
- You want to take over and complete the manoeuvre on your own.
- The current placement is good and you don't need it to continue.
- You want it to stop for safety reasons.
- Press Cancel in the centre display.
- Start steering manually.
- Change gear.
- Release the accelerator pedal.
- Press the brake pedal.
- a pedestrian is detected close to the vehicle.
- the maximum allowed speed exceeds.
- the maximum number of moves exceeds.
- the slope is too steep.
- the car detects a system malfunction or failure.
Note
Conditions and limitations
Certain events and conditions, such as a door being opened, can prevent activation or pause Park Pilot Assist if they occur during the manoeuvre. Park Pilot Assist can resume the manoeuvre when the condition no longer applies. You can also choose to exit Park Pilot Assist and complete the manoeuvre without using it.
