When active, Park Pilot Assist controls the vehicle 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 vehicle's ability to detect its surroundings by using information from the parking sensors.
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 and perpendicular parking. 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 start the parking maneuver by pressing down slightly on the accelerator pedal and letting go of the steering wheel. 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. 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 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.
Using the accelerator during maneuvers
You need to use the accelerator pedal during parking maneuvers even though you can't control the speed of the vehicle. Pressing the accelerator down slightly1 but not quite halfway tells your vehicle that you want the maneuver 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 maneuver. It might be tempting to try to speed up the maneuver by pressing more on the accelerator, but this will pause the parking. Letting up too much on the accelerator pedal also pauses any ongoing maneuvers.
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.
- Release the accelerator pedal.
- Press the brake pedal.
- 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.
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 maneuver. Park Pilot Assist can resume the maneuver when the condition no longer applies. You can also choose to exit Park Pilot Assist and complete the maneuver without using it.
