Park Pilot Assist

When active, Park Pilot Assist controls the vehicle with high precision, allowing you to park in tight spaces. It can help you both when parking and when leaving a parallel 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 vehicle's ability to detect its surroundings by using information from the parking sensors. The sensors use nearby objects to detect available parking spaces rather than road markings. For this reason, Park Pilot Assist can only identify a space if another vehicle is parked in front of it.

During Park Pilot Assist maneuvers

Your vehicle controls acceleration, braking and steering during parking maneuvers. Even though Park Pilot Assist takes over the driving-related tasks of parking, you must still monitor the feature and its maneuvers. 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 vehicle. 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 parking, when parking behind another vehicle. When you activate Park Pilot Assist, it identifies available spaces close to the vehicle and presents one of them in the center display. After confirming the suggested space to park in, you can let go of the steering wheel and start the parking maneuver by lightly tapping the brake pedal once. Your vehicle then controls steering, braking and acceleration to park. Supervise the maneuver and follow any instructions provided in the center display.

Leaving a parking space

You can use Park Pilot Assist to maneuver out of a parallel parking space. When you activate Park Pilot Assist, the vehicle suggests an exit direction. Use the turn signals to select and confirm which direction you prefer. After confirming the exit direction, you can let go of the steering wheel and lightly tap the brake pedal to start the Park Pilot Assist maneuver. Your vehicle then controls steering, braking and acceleration to leave the parking space. Supervise the maneuver and follow any instructions provided in the center 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 vehicle 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 judgment.

Limitations

Park Pilot Assist cannot handle all traffic, weather and road conditions. Read the separate manual section covering detection of vehicle surroundings and traffic before using features that rely on these capabilities.

Stopping Park Pilot Assist

You can always stop an ongoing maneuver. Depending on how you do so, Park Pilot Assist either pauses or ends the maneuver.

• You want to take over and complete the maneuver 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 center display.
• Start steering manually.
• Change gear.

• a pedestrian is detected close to the vehicle.
• the maximum allowed speed is exceeded.
• the maximum number of moves is exceeded.
• the slope is too steep.
• the vehicle detects a system malfunction or failure.

You can also pause Park Pilot Assist by pressing the brake pedal.

Note

Automatic pausing of Park Pilot Assist

Park Pilot Assist may pause automatically during a maneuver if:

• a door is opened.
• the driver is no longer detected by the vehicle's system.
• the vehicle performs an emergency braking maneuver.

Extending a paused maneuver

Pressing and holding the brake pedal can pause the maneuver for up to a minute before it's cancelled. Releasing the brake pedal within this time resumes the maneuver.

Resuming a paused maneuver

You can resume the maneuver by pressing the brake pedal once. If you don't press the brake pedal after an automatic pause, the maneuver cancels after a short while.