Comments on: Volkswagen Passat parks itself alone

By: VW_Freak

VW_Freak — Mon, 05 May 2008 03:10:19 +0000

# JapanCarBlog.com Says:
May 4th, 2008 at 12:56 pm

“My car’s a 1988 Sentra with a $25,000 insurance payout if damaged in a no-fault accident. I’d love to have a Passat crash into it.”

Huh? A what…?!? Sorry mate, we don’t get those here in Ausland.

By: Blue

Blue — Sun, 04 May 2008 07:49:21 +0000

I don’t trust the PEOPLE who OWN Passats to park next to my car!!! I am sure the car will do a better job !

By: JapanCarBlog.com

JapanCarBlog.com — Sun, 04 May 2008 02:56:03 +0000

My car’s a 1988 Sentra with a $25,000 insurance payout if damaged in a no-fault accident. I’d love to have a Passat crash into it.

By: Minnow

Minnow — Fri, 02 May 2008 09:23:00 +0000

reckless, yeah its good for people who cant drive.. this would help them, that was my open sentence. But for the majority of normal capable drivers this technology is pointless. If you cant reverse park.. park forwards its much faster and wouldn’t it annoy you to have someone get out of their car to watch it park itself while your idling there with a clearly stupid driver too lazy to learn to reverse park when they could have easily front parked?

By: No Name

No Name — Fri, 02 May 2008 08:31:33 +0000

The parallel parking systems currently available in I think a Lexus or a Merc wouldn’t work in 9 out of 10 cases. They all require huge spaces that are not typically available. I would love to see it work with a 300mm gap.

By: No Name

No Name — Fri, 02 May 2008 08:21:07 +0000

Reckles 1 – Nah mate I’m not a wanker. perhaps saying I wouldn’t trust it was wrong. I take it back, I would trust it. BUT what I will say is IT WILL NOT WORK for anything but a huge parking space with plenty of room in both the space and the approaches. How many times have you had to do a 3plus point manouver to get into a spot in an underground car park. Like to see it work there. NAH couldn’t do it.

By: realcars

realcars — Fri, 02 May 2008 07:57:44 +0000

agree Alex!

By: realcars

realcars — Fri, 02 May 2008 07:54:52 +0000

Here is some advice for nothing VW. Just do what u do best and keep making good Euro cars.

Leave the gimmicky bullshit to Lexus.

By: realcars

realcars — Fri, 02 May 2008 07:51:38 +0000

If u can’t park u shouldn’t drive.

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 02 May 2008 06:25:09 +0000

To all the people who say that the people who dont like it are being stupid then I think that they neeed to consider that when you spend $50,000 on a car you probably don’t want to risk the car scratching itself! And there would always be that slight worry. What if the tech goes wrong after while – my VCR buggered up the other day after 15 years of use – why wouldn’t this? (And yes I know its a Volkswagen) The other problem is that I don’t think there would be a person out there who would just get out of the car and walk away while it parked – they would stand and watch! So most people who buy this tech will be absolute WANKERS! They will simply be showing off! I would seriously think about getting the one that parks itself with you inside but I think that this one is sort of pointless. They need to get this tech on Touaregs though so soccer mums stop denting my car!