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Thomas Frey - Senior Futurist at the DaVinci Institute
February 22nd, 2006 at 10:21 pm

Hands-Free Parallel Parking in a Toyota Prius

For some people, parallel parking is the thing they fear most in life. Steering in reverse and judging safe distances between parked cars while watching for oncoming traffic can be very unnerving even for very skilled drivers. That’s why Toyota has come up with a way to make this problem go away.

The Toyota Prius now comes with an optional $2,000 Intelligent Parking Assist. Just
check out the
video
if you doubt the usefulness of this technology. Now, if only Toyota would bring the technology here like they just did
in Europe or in Japan some 3 years ago.

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