Remote Parking

[Stumpyuk]

Can't find any mention of it in these forums, but the MY22 Lexus NX brochure claims that from spring 2022, NX models with have a remote park feature, allowing you to stand outside the vehicle and park it remotely from your phone app.   Useful for those tight spaces in multi-storey car parks.   Apparently, it will be delivered to existing NX models with the advanced pack via software update.    See page 7 of this resource:

https://www.lexus.com/content/dam/lexus/documents/brochures/models/2022/MY22-Lexus-NX-Brochure.pdf

 

[Herbie]

44 minutes ago, Stumpyuk said:

Can't find any mention of it in these forums, but the MY22 Lexus NX brochure claims that from spring 2022, NX models with have a remote park feature, allowing you to stand outside the vehicle and park it remotely from your phone app.   Useful for those tight spaces in multi-storey car parks.   Apparently, it will be delivered to existing NX models with the advanced pack via software update.    See page 7 of this resource:

https://www.lexus.com/content/dam/lexus/documents/brochures/models/2022/MY22-Lexus-NX-Brochure.pdf

 

Two things wrong with that:

1. If the space is that tight I'd be frightened that the people either side of me would damage my car when opening their doors and would therefore never go in such a tight space
2. Driving, manoeuvring and parking are all skills that we should be proud of and they need doing on a regular basis to keep up that skill level. I don't want a machine doing something I take pride in doing well myself.

[zanderblue]

53 minutes ago, Stumpyuk said:

Can't find any mention of it in these forums, but the MY22 Lexus NX brochure claims that from spring 2022, NX models with have a remote park feature, allowing you to stand outside the vehicle and park it remotely from your phone app.   Useful for those tight spaces in multi-storey car parks.   Apparently, it will be delivered to existing NX models with the advanced pack via software update.    See page 7 of this resource:

https://www.lexus.com/content/dam/lexus/documents/brochures/models/2022/MY22-Lexus-NX-Brochure.pdf

 

I’m not sure this is UK spec document. I suspect this is US or Canada?? 

[Stumpyuk]

2 minutes ago, Herbie said:

Two things wrong with that:

1. If the space is that tight I'd be frightened that the people either side of me would damage my car when opening their doors and would therefore never go in such a tight space
2. Driving, manoeuvring and parking are all skills that we should be proud of and they need doing on a regular basis to keep up that skill level. I don't want a machine doing something I take pride in doing well myself.

 

I disagree.

1. Its very common to park in a relatively empty carpark but when you return to your car it is hemmed in either side.   I don't want to damage anyone else's car through trying to squeeze into mine.

2. Tech relieves you of the need to maintain workaday skills.   I am proud of my skills in doing arithmetic on paper, but I will reach for a calculator every time I can't do it in my head.

[peniole]

Given the diminutive home garage sizes in the UK, this would be a useful feature. I've seen too many garages where if you can park, you better sleep in the car. You ain't gettin' out.

Next time I see an architect design or builder build a sub 3m wide garage I'm going to slap them.

[Stumpyuk]

3 hours ago, zanderblue said:

I’m not sure this is UK spec document. I suspect this is US or Canada?? 

I think the document is from North America.   However, AFAIK, the feature is already live in Japanese NX models.   I think the reason for it being released in North America in Q1/Q2 of 2022 is because of the homologation issues (the feature needs approving in that region).   Again, AFAIK, this feature has already been approved for vehicles in the UK:

https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/industry/remote-control-car-parking-become-legal-uk-june

[steve2006]

I wonder how long it will take to hack this system and park the car in a shipping container!

[Herbie]

10 minutes ago, steve2006 said:

I wonder how long it will take to hack this system and park the car in a shipping container!

Now that is a frightening thought!

[Stumpyuk]

1 hour ago, Herbie said:

Now that is a frightening thought!

Maybe, but am not convinced that being frightened by unlikely and low impact theoretical risks without balancing against the advantages is the best way to evaluate this tech.

[Don C]

It is standard on the UK Takumi spec.

 

[Gureamu]

This was an odd one. I don't think it's offered any longer although it definitely was originally. It was also part of the Takumi pack that could be added to the F-Sport originally but isn't now. They kept the Takumi pack at the same price (£4,500) but deleted the automated parking option making it a very expensive looking option. Now the Takumi pack only has a sunroof, lane change assist, front cross traffic alert and the digital rear view mirror. The sun roof can be ordered for £1,000 separately and so £3,500 for a few options that I doubt I'd ever use seems steep.  

[Ala Larj]

On 1/23/2022 at 4:14 PM, peniole said:

Given the diminutive home garage sizes in the UK, this would be a useful feature. I've seen too many garages where if you can park, you better sleep in the car. You ain't gettin' out.

Next time I see an architect design or builder build a sub 3m wide garage I'm going to slap them.

Does remote parking also include remote getting it out? If not I guess you’ll only use it once! 😉

[peniole]

2 minutes ago, Ala Larj said:

Does remote parking also include remote getting it out? If not I guess you’ll only use it once! 😉

I would sincerely hope so. Perish the thought. 😆

That would be one awkward phone call, "umm lexus/AA man..

[Stumpyuk]

15 hours ago, Ala Larj said:

Does remote parking also include remote getting it out? If not I guess you’ll only use it once! 😉

😄 That would be a bit awkward if it didn't do that.  I imagine the feature will be based on the Toyota Remote Park stack, I found an app for it on the Japanese apple App store.   It states that it "Assists smooth park-in and park-out", so I guess it will work both ways. 

https://apps.apple.com/jp/app/remote-park/id1577283172?l=en

[Al D-Much]

If you have to use remote park in/out of a space, surely the space is too small for the car in the first place. Anyone parking next to you in a lesser vehicle that has to manually open their door and get out, surely they are going to bash the bodywork on your luxury ride?

[Al D-Much]

Thinking about it.
It would be useful if you have an old house with a tiny garage built for 19050's / 60's cars rather than the modern "trucks" we drive now.

With remote parking in/out at least you could use the old garage for its intended purpose rather than an extra dumping ground.
As only in England do you see 40/50k cars parked in front of a garage containing a few 100's worth of tat. 🙂

[AdyR]

I have remote parking on my Mercedes and I only played with parking it, but I found it very useful on several occasion to get the car out of a parking space when another car had parked so close I couldn't get in (their passenger side to my drivers side). So I do hope my new (on order) NX450h+ Takumi does have it.

[Phil xxkr]

On 2/3/2022 at 12:09 PM, Al D-Much said:

Thinking about it.
It would be useful if you have an old house with a tiny garage built for 19050's / 60's cars rather than the modern "trucks" we drive now.

With remote parking in/out at least you could use the old garage for its intended purpose rather than an extra dumping ground.
As only in England do you see 40/50k cars parked in front of a garage containing a few 100's worth of tat. 🙂

Absolutely, but if your car was in such a tight place and auto park failed 😱😱😱

[DanD]

It won't fail. It's a Lexus!

[Don C]

For goodness sake, don’t knock a mirror off, it’s got all the usual gadgets, motors, heaters, cameras, dimmers, swivels etc but it’s also got sonic detection.  Definitely an insurance job if one of those goes south.   

[OPorz]

Lexus cancelled this feature in the US today (10 May 2022) with an offer to pay $500 compensation.  The letter says it will NOT be available in the 2022 NX.