MotoringFile Most liked posts in thread: Would You Want a Self Parking MINI?

If you can't park your car no matter what it is. Give up driving.....

 

Another example of potentially making a change because they can, not because they should.

 

When all responsibility for operating a motor vehicle is eventually removed and then something bad happens, who is responsible? Insurance policies should be cheaper, no liability coverage..wink wink nudge nudge.

 

I don't want a self anything anything! If you can't zip your own britches or tie your own shoes you need to move in to the 'home'...and I've got contemporaries in the 'home'.

 

And suddenly my resistance to this idea evaporated.

I, for one, welcome our robotic beer picking up overlords.

 

NO NO NO NO NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If you can't drive a car take the bus. Stop dumbing everything down.

 

My sentiments exactly! If you can't manage to park a Mini on your own you shouldn't be driving.

 

No!!

 

This craziness really must stop with all this "STUFF"

Would you still need to pay the parking valet?

Sooo.... Self driving cars, self parking car... Can I just send the MINI to the store for a 6-pack of beer without my involvement?

And Frisky...

But it's only temporary...

 

I don't want a car that self-does anything!

 

no, self parking cars are effing stupid

 

NO

 

Absolutely not.

I'm perfectly capable of handling my own parking, unlike many other disappointing members of society.

 

For the R50/52/53, no. They are small enough to park easily.

Now for the new modern larger sized MINI, I could use help there when it comes to parking.

 

You just need practice.

[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRXW7Ne1_88"]Tightest Parallel Park Record Broken by China’s Han Yue - Guinness World Records - YouTube[/ame]

 

No...but I cant tell you the last time I parallel parked either. Now that I think about it though it might have been the rider mower, space is tight in the carport.

 

I really dislike the direction the auto manufacturers are going. I allowed myself to get a little excited about the new '16 Mazda Miata(I've owned two in the past) but it was an instant turn off when I learned that no matter what model there will be a permanent flat screen sticking up in the middle of the instrument panel. No way.

 

Since car enthusiasts are adamantly against self parking it will be an option in the near future 'cause that seems to be the way BMW rolls these days.

 

The wave of the future appears to be factory options (whether really necessary or not) that only require a one-time, centralized investment in software/firmware development and testing. Those that require maintenance of a parts inventory (e.g., sport suspension, rear fog lights) are sadly falling by the wayside even if there is similar or larger sized segment of the buying public willing to spend their money on these things.

So it's natural we'll have software engineers sitting around and making up stuff with the goal of beating the competition to an off-the-wall innovation and hoping it will go viral.

This is just a higher tech version of Mission Control...and you know how that worked out. :frown2: