[ToddRGuy]

Okay, so I've been fiddling with various settings this weekend and I do have a question about this feature.

In my Audi, when I pulled into the garage and approached the wall of the garage this came on automatically. I don't know if I turned something off in my exploration or if the G60 just doesn't do this when approaching an obstacle from the front, but it doesn't automatically 'turn on'.

It works beautifully if I press the 'P)))' symbol on the console, and it always turns on when switching into reverse, but I've noticed I've had to activate it manually to better gauge my proximity to the front garage wall.

I did go into 'Vehicle>Driving Settings>Driver Assistance>Parking and verified that it's toggled on, along with the other host of nanny anti-collision features there.

Any thoughts on th is?

[nacs]

I too press the park setting and then change camera view to car wash as there is a turn in our driveway and I like having the better view of my passenger front corner when pulling in….

[SkykingUSA]

It will come on automatically if you have a path saved and you have the setting turned on for activation points (it may be called something different, I don't remember right now). For example, when I pull into my driveway, the parking screen comes on automatically because the car knows I'm in my driveway and I have a path saved that takes my car into the garage.

If you want the same thing, just save a path in iDrive as you drive into your garage from your driveway. You don't have to use the path if you don't want to, but just because it's saved, the car will bring up the parking screens/cameras each time you return to the driveway in case you do want to use it. Give that a try.

[ToddRGuy]

Originally Posted by SkykingUSA

It will come on automatically if you have a path saved and you have the setting turned on for activation points (it may be called something different, I don't remember right now). For example, when I pull into my driveway, the parking screen comes on automatically because the car knows I'm in my driveway and I have a path saved that takes my car into the garage.

If you want the same thing, just save a path in iDrive as you drive into your garage from your driveway. You don't have to use the path if you don't want to, but just because it's saved, the car will bring up the parking screens/cameras each time you return to the driveway in case you do want to use it. Give that a try.

Thank you! I saw that option in my menu travels today, but haven’t explored it yet. Great idea 😊

[SkykingUSA]

Originally Posted by ToddRGuy

Thank you! I saw that option in my menu travels today, but haven’t explored it yet. Great idea 😊

I use a saved path most times when I enter the garage. I just stop in the driveway in about the right spot, then let the car pull into the garage and park me in the right spot. It is almost always centered side to side, and always leaves the exact distance in the front and back so the door can close, and so I don't run into the wall. :-)

[MiGs550e]

Originally Posted by SkykingUSA

It will come on automatically if you have a path saved and you have the setting turned on for activation points (it may be called something different, I don't remember right now). For example, when I pull into my driveway, the parking screen comes on automatically because the car knows I'm in my driveway and I have a path saved that takes my car into the garage.

If you want the same thing, just save a path in iDrive as you drive into your garage from your driveway. You don't have to use the path if you don't want to, but just because it's saved, the car will bring up the parking screens/cameras each time you return to the driveway in case you do want to use it. Give that a try.

I’ve been scared to try the record parking path and auto parking feature into the garage. How accurate is it? I only have a few inches on either side with the mirrors out when passing through the garage door threshold. It opens up after and have plenty of room to the walls on each side to open the door and get out/ in of vehicle, just garage door itself is narrow.

[tsbrown]

Originally Posted by SkykingUSA

I use a saved path most times when I enter the garage. I just stop in the driveway in about the right spot, then let the car pull into the garage and park me in the right spot. It is almost always centered side to side, and always leaves the exact distance in the front and back so the door can close, and so I don't run into the wall. :-)

Wish my wife’s car had this

[SkykingUSA]

Originally Posted by MiGs550e

I’ve been scared to try the record parking path and auto parking feature into the garage. How accurate is it? I only have a few inches on either side with the mirrors out when passing through the garage door threshold. It opens up after and have plenty of room to the walls on each side to open the door and get out/ in of vehicle, just garage door itself is narrow.

You should try it. It uses the cameras to make sure it doesn't hit anything and you can ride the brake the whole time if you want to control the speed or stop the car any time.

[ToddRGuy]

Okay, I tried it. Recorded a path and bravely let it do its thing with a bit of brake riding 😅

I may redo this, as I recorded a path from the street, turning right, into my driveway and then into the garage. May I should have just gone with a “universal” on the driveway recording.

I wasn’t sure if it was smart enough to understand doing the same manuever with a left hand turn into the driveway, so I recorded a second path.

This is why I’m wondering if something more simple like beginning while on the driveway rather than the road might be more efficient. I guess it doesn’t really matter.

[MiGs550e]

Originally Posted by SkykingUSA

You should try it. It uses the cameras to make sure it doesn't hit anything and you can ride the brake the whole time if you want to control the speed or stop the car any time.

I reverse park in my garage does that change anything?

[SkykingUSA]

Originally Posted by ToddRGuy

Okay, I tried it. Recorded a path and bravely let it do its thing with a bit of brake riding 😅

I may redo this, as I recorded a path from the street, turning right, into my driveway and then into the garage. May I should have just gone with a “universal” on the driveway recording.

I wasn’t sure if it was smart enough to understand doing the same manuever with a left hand turn into the driveway, so I recorded a second path.

This is why I’m wondering if something more simple like beginning while on the driveway rather than the road might be more efficient. I guess it doesn’t really matter.

I would definitely do it from a start point in the driveway - that way you're not sitting in the street with the possibility of other traffic interfering. This feature of the car knows how to park, not yield to other traffic or go when traffic is a reasonable distance away. Plus, it's pretty slow - others may not expect you to move so slowly when in the road.

One thing to note - I think there is a minimum distance you need to travel for a path to record. I think it's about 20 feet minimum, or it won't be able to save the path. Keep that in mind when choosing your starting point.

Originally Posted by MiGs550e

I reverse park in my garage does that change anything?

I don't think it matters, it should work either forwards or backwards. When parking in a parking lot, you can choose whether to park in the spot forwards or backwards, so I think it can handle either when recording a path.

BTW, if you haven't tried the parallel parking feature yet, give it a try. I've used it a bunch of times to parallel park on the street and it works like a charm. I have to park on the street 2 or 3 times per week amongst other cars.

One other thing - I'm not sure how many of these features requires the purchase of the Parking Professional option from the iDrive store. I think that purchase only buys you the remote parking feature and the ability to park between lines in a parking lot when there are no other cars parked beside you, but not sure.

[ToddRGuy]

Originally Posted by SkykingUSA

I don't think it matters, it should work either forwards or backwards. When parking in a parking lot, you can choose whether to park in the spot forwards or backwards, so I think it can handle either when recording a path.

BTW, if you haven't tried the parallel parking feature yet, give it a try. I've used it a bunch of times to parallel park on the street and it works like a charm. I have to park on the street 2 or 3 times per week amongst other cars.

One other thing - I'm not sure how many of these features requires the purchase of the Parking Professional option from the iDrive store. I think that purchase only buys you the remote parking feature and the ability to park between lines in a parking lot when there are no other cars parked beside you, but not sure.

Oh, I went ahead and got the professional one in their App Store, along with the lighting parlor trick. Kind of silly that they just aren’t included though. I was surprised that the download and installation started immediately and were completeld in under 5 minutes.

Definitely will redo the parking manuever, based on this information, even though my “street” is more of a private road with only occasional residential traffic. Thank you!

[LVBMW]

Originally Posted by SkykingUSA

I would definitely do it from a start point in the driveway - that way you're not sitting in the street with the possibility of other traffic interfering. This feature of the car knows how to park, not yield to other traffic or go when traffic is a reasonable distance away. Plus, it's pretty slow - others may not expect you to move so slowly when in the road.

One thing to note - I think there is a minimum distance you need to travel for a path to record. I think it's about 20 feet minimum, or it won't be able to save the path. Keep that in mind when choosing your starting point.




I don't think it matters, it should work either forwards or backwards. When parking in a parking lot, you can choose whether to park in the spot forwards or backwards, so I think it can handle either when recording a path.

BTW, if you haven't tried the parallel parking feature yet, give it a try. I've used it a bunch of times to parallel park on the street and it works like a charm. I have to park on the street 2 or 3 times per week amongst other cars.

One other thing - I'm not sure how many of these features requires the purchase of the Parking Professional option from the iDrive store. I think that purchase only buys you the remote parking feature and the ability to park between lines in a parking lot when there are no other cars parked beside you, but not sure.

I believe parking assistance pro also allows you to record and save a longer path.

[LVBMW]

Originally Posted by ToddRGuy

Okay, I tried it. Recorded a path and bravely let it do its thing with a bit of brake riding 😅

I may redo this, as I recorded a path from the street, turning right, into my driveway and then into the garage. May I should have just gone with a “universal” on the driveway recording.

I wasn’t sure if it was smart enough to understand doing the same manuever with a left hand turn into the driveway, so I recorded a second path.

This is why I’m wondering if something more simple like beginning while on the driveway rather than the road might be more efficient. I guess it doesn’t really matter.

Be aware that the recorded path probably won't work at night if you recorded it during the day which I recently discovered. You will have to record a separate path at night if it lets you as it also might say there is not enough light to record a path.

[ToddRGuy]

Originally Posted by LVBMW

Be aware that the recorded path probably won't work at night if you recorded it during the day which I recently discovered. You will have to record a separate path at night if it lets you as it also might say there is not enough light to record a path.

Thanks for the heads up! I deleted the two where I started on the street, and replaced it with a single one where I started at the edge of the driveway. I’ll map a night version now.

[AiredaleDad]

I recorded one from the street to inside my carport, behind my wife's SUV. Works both day and night, but I also have a streetlight right across from my carport door.

[SkykingUSA]

My single recorded path works both day and night as well. Perhaps because I have a motion sensing light above my garage door, so it's never really that dark in the area, even at night.

[Blue Sky]

Sounds like a lot of fun to ride in while just pressing the integrated garage openner button. I presume it won’t record that into the path for liability concerns, or does it?

Is anyone using this for remote park, or specifically for unparking? It can be very useful to unpark/repark the car for cleaning. And then there’s the underground garage where my daughter lives which has concrete pillars that make it had to get out of a larger car. It would be great to train parking and unparking, where those are two different paths, since unparking needs to end up pointing the car in the opposite direction from which I drove in.

[Vindicator3]

A related feature that sounds very cool to me as I peruse the manual is the ability to save certain activation points where the panoramic view automatically comes on. I pull out of an alley leaving work every evening onto a road where my view of cross-traffic, especially from the left, is almost always obscured by parked cars. Auto-panorama should be very handy for this. Cool tech if it works as described in the manual.

[LVBMW]

Originally Posted by Vindicator3

A related feature that sounds very cool to me as I peruse the manual is the ability to save certain activation points where the panoramic view automatically comes on. I pull out of an alley leaving work every evening onto a road where my view of cross-traffic, especially from the left, is almost always obscured by parked cars. Auto-panorama should be very handy for this. Cool tech if it works as described in the manual.

I use this feature often and it is cool, but for some reason it doesn’t activate about 25% of the time when I reach the programmed area.

[SkykingUSA]

Originally Posted by Blue Sky

Sounds like a lot of fun to ride in while just pressing the integrated garage openner button. I presume it won’t record that into the path for liability concerns, or does it?

Is anyone using this for remote park, or specifically for unparking? It can be very useful to unpark/repark the car for cleaning. And then there’s the underground garage where my daughter lives which has concrete pillars that make it had to get out of a larger car. It would be great to train parking and unparking, where those are two different paths, since unparking needs to end up pointing the car in the opposite direction from which I drove in.

A recorded path does not capture the garage opener press. Nice idea though. I have a second recorded path to back me out of the garage which I sometimes use for fun. I have not used either of them remotely though since I have never really had the need. I have only used remote parking in two situations:

1. When I wash the car and apply tire dressing, I will manually pull it forward about 2 feet after first applying the dressing so I can get to the part of the wheels that were previously closest to the ground so the dressing is applied evenly.
2. I also used it once in a parking lot where a large SUV parked very close right next to me and the driver was a Mom who had little kids she was trying to deal with in the SUV, so rather than ask her to move over, I just backed the car out of the spot remotely and continued on my merry way. It was quite useful in that situation.

To summarize, I have only used the "manual" option for remote parking, but the recorded paths do show as an option, I have just never tried them.

Originally Posted by Vindicator3

A related feature that sounds very cool to me as I peruse the manual is the ability to save certain activation points where the panoramic view automatically comes on. I pull out of an alley leaving work every evening onto a road where my view of cross-traffic, especially from the left, is almost always obscured by parked cars. Auto-panorama should be very handy for this. Cool tech if it works as described in the manual.

This works for me too, but I'd say about 80% of the time. Every time I pull into my driveway, the cameras come on because it knows there is a recorded path that starts here. Another geographically activated activation point is for the driver side window. It will automatically lower every time I get to my friends gated community where I have to speak with the guard and the gate to get into the community.

I have not tried creating a manual one yet for particular intersections like you're referring to, because I really don't have a spot like that, but I'll try one out anyway, to see how it works.

During that 20% of the time when activation points don't pop up automatically, or when the drivers assistance PLUS does not pop up when I'm on the freeway, I believe it's either due to not getting a GPS signal or some other software-related or connectivity-related issue. I will usually reboot iDrive when I see this happening more than once or twice in a row and that solves the issue. Just two days ago, I was on the freeway and I wasn't getting the option to let go of the wheel like I usually get. When I arrived at my destination, I just rebooted iDrive, and since then everything worked normally again. I find that I need to reboot the system about 1 time per quarter - that is in addition to the OTA updates that come out once per quarter (roughly).