Ford discontinuing Park Assist

[curtisfinney]

I have amblyopia and am not sure I have the best depth perception. I have always struggled to understand where the front and back of my car are when parallel parking, yet I still always did it before cameras and never hit a car in my 38 years of driving. I also learned through a defensive driving course that backend parking is the safest for pedestrians and the quickest for drivers. The camera on modern cars make these tasks a breeze.

Park assist is this is the most useless feature of this car, which the data clearly demonstrates and it totally make sense to drop this feature.

Everyone can learn to back end park and parallel park. Anyone who says they can’t do it is just being stubborn and is unwilling to learn.

By the way, my wife also refuses to do this. ?

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[curtisfinney]

Now that park assist is officially gone. I wonder what Ford plans to do with the switch. In cars (like mine) without park assist it brings up a nav screen to search for a parking spot. The few times I tried this it was not very useful and certainly doesn't need a dedicated switch.

I have since rewired the switch to open the rear hatch. Perhaps Ford could repurpose the switch to do that or find some other use.

Lou

That’s brilliant!

 

[HuntingPudel]

I have never tried it, figuring that it isn’t on my ‘21 GT-PE since I don’t have the side sensors that are on a car with Ford Co-pilot 360/Active 2.0. Maybe i’ll go out and hit the right turn signal and push the button to see if it does anything. ?‍?

 

[david_quick]

No more park assist for Ford vehicles. Apparently, it wasn’t used much according to the data.

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a46683694/ford-parallel-parking-tech-discontinued/

How do you know if you have it? How do you activate it?

 

[Skip Towne]

Parking assist is a "feature" on my 2021. I was kind of excited for it, thinking it wouls help my wife get the car into the garage without a panic attack and/or parking by braille.

I tried reading the manual, following the instructions, testing, reading, more, testing reading more, testing more.

Everything seems to work great - except identifying a parking space and getting in to it. I couldn't get it to work on the garage, or parking lots etc

I added it to the list of things Ford said they delivered for the price and didn't. Parking Assist turns out to be a more expensive failure as the cargo cover - which at least I can get to work sometimes.

 

[azerik]

It’s about as useful as Tesla summon. If you have 5 minutes to park then sure, it works. I’ve yet to get mine to work in my attempts.

 

[tbrumleve]

How do you know if you have it? How do you activate it?

Press the P button next to the hazard button. If you don’t have it, it’ll bring up parking spots on the map.

 

[david_quick]

Press the P button next to the hazard button. If you don’t have it, it’ll bring up parking spots on the map.

Really? I always assumed that was the parking brake. That was what it was on my last car.

 

[david_quick]

Really? I always assumed that was the parking brake. That was what it was on my last car.

This is what I see when I press the button.

 

[RickMachE]

If we're going to automate parking, I would much rather have the ability to pull a vehicle forward and backward in a parking spot when cars beside you are too tight to open a door.

I used my automated parking exactly once to see how it worked. As others have mentioned, it was very slow. I haven't used it since.

Everytime I see someone post this, I ask "Really? You would take a $50 - $60,000 car, and park it so tight you can't open doors? So that the 'other guy" can open his and dent yours?"

How do you know if you have it? How do you activate it?

You could read the instructions in the manual.

Really? I always assumed that was the parking brake. That was what it was on my last car.

I always recommend that people a) read the manual and b) sit and explore every single setting in the car. I cannot imagine owning a vehicle for any period of time and not knowing what every button did.

 

[KevinS]

Everytime I see someone post this, I ask "Really? You would take a $50 - $60,000 car, and park it so tight you can't open doors? So that the 'other guy" can open his and dent yours?"

You've never come out to a parking lot that was open spaces on both sides of you when you left, and some asshat parks too close because they were giving themselves extra room on their side?

 

[RickMachE]

You've never come out to a parking lot that was open spaces on both sides of you when you left, and some asshat parks too close because they were giving themselves extra room on their side?

Where I cannot get in? Never.

I always park way out. Rows away from others. If someone was so close that I could not get in, they'd find a really nasty note under their wiper.

Where we live, and the stores and places we frequent, parking isn't an issue. If it is, I park elsewhere and walk back.

 

[KevinS]

East Coast manners and 9x18 parking space sizes are fun!

 

[jgcom]

Automatic parking requirements are hard to define. You don't always want to follow the lines, nor always to center between cars. Most people try to minimize the chance that they get dinged by an adjacent car, get a ticket, or be unable to exit their own car. Also, the process has to give the driver, passengers, and random nearby people the impression that the driver is getting it done expeditiously so that they don't interfere. The logic has to be pretty fuzzy. I'm glad I don't have to program that.

 

[TallNate]

It is a miserably frustrating feature to try to use. Makes the human feel stupid when it doesn't work, which is often. Then when it works, it seems useful but scary how fast it moves and how close it gets the corner of the Mach-E to the corner of the parked car while backing in. My success rate with Park Assist functioning is about 10%, and I'm usually technologically capable as a user. Come on Ford.

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