44. Parking Assistance

For many people parking a car is more and more a chore task. Due to aerodynamic requirements, increasing the size of vehicles, the visibility to rear and front end of the vehicle decreases, and in parallel, it is more and more difficult to find a suitable parking space. While in the 1990s Parking Aid Systems were not seen as necessary in the meantime, systems supporting the parking process are either standard in some vehicles or have a high take rate. While Parking Aid Systems of the first generations were mainly informing systems, nowadays, these systems help in finding a suitable parking place and support steering during the parking maneuver, and future systems will be more and more autonomous, finally resulting in systems which find their parking place by themselves – valet parking.