Honda Parking Pilot Review | Honda E Advance 

The "pull out" function is designed to get you out of a too-tight parallel parking situation.

I was about to say it's easier just to park than use that function. Then I saw Mario's parking attempt ha ha so maybe it is needed.

It did a good job of identifying that first space without having a kerb. :)

Just another example of why self driving is so much longer away than we hear. Even parking as quick or as well as a human is beyond cars. I am all for self driving purely on the basis of maintaining mobility in my old age.

Great overview! Hope they can offer improvements via software updates as the months go on. Think it’s likely Ian?

Useful video.

Thanks Ian, great video. I think the car did very well considering the not so perfect situations. Much better than I expected. Have you tried the parallel park on public roads? Or do you think that would be too risky yet?

To be fair to the car, it was probably trained on Japanese car parks, where if there is anything more than a sweet wrapper on the floor, a polite if possibly superfluous man, dressed in high-vis with a hard hat, will come out and put cones around it. Here in the UK however, many car parks are such that any parking manoeuvre resulting in the windscreen staying above the numberplate can be considered a success.

Do you remember the days when you were told to make sure that you were moving before trying to turn the wheel? I was told it was to reduce the pressure on the steering joints and in those days we didn’t have the luxury of power steering.

Pull out meant for parallel parking?

Maybe the pull out feature is for when you're parked inbetween vehicles?

“It’s a bit hit and miss with barriers.” I’d definitely go with missing barriers. Though that audio warning. Kept wishing that someone would answer the phone.

The parking next to the Micra did not overhang like in the car park on the other video so the system seems capable but with some foibles.

It would be useful to tell it to park nose on. Parking for charging a bit difficult otherwise and I regularly park somewhere where there is muddy grass at the end of the bay. I always go in forwards so that I can access the boot without getting muddy. It looks like the AI needs to go back to school. When you said barriers were hit and miss it made me laugh - hopefully always miss but given that it nearly drove into a wall. I imagine in a snowy car park there's no chance.

Suppose you returned to the car & somebody had parked alongside you & you couldn't open the driver's door. A pull-out feature via an app on your phone could be very useful. I don't know if that's the purpose of the feature? The AI worked better than I thought it would.

That chap in the background was a right nosey parker,haha

If you have reverse parked into a bay,how does it whether you wish to turn left or right when you leave.It might turn you the wrong way in a one-way street ?

The first pull out manoeuvre, looks like for coming out of a parallel parking space

Page 550 of the Honda e manual says the Pull-out feature is for when there is a car in front of you in a parallel parking situation

I don't mean to sound disrespectful about your competitively costly acquisition, apologies if I do, and I'm happy that you like what in my perception is a motorised shopping trolley but to me it looks like a doubly concave mobile matchbox with a charging-port lid resembling the top of a commode. But it has its bad points too. [News recently came my way regarding an individual and his particular Honda e - apparently these shores have produced a second purchaser in addition to your goodself it appears - and word is that one day the bloke went into a motor accessories shop wanting a windscreen wiper for it. He was told, "Sounds about right".]

Parking assists been around quite few years now, but if gimmick not sure how many drivers Actully use it. Most importantly a good back up reverse camera very important especially for those little annoying knocks scraps bollards small walls you just can’t see though rear window. Above all camera great safety feature small child pets behind vehicle. I’m waiting for driverless vehicles I think it should cut down a lot bad speeding drivers! ⚡️

Such a fab little car! Would be good to have that auto parking if you had a bad neck

The tesla self parking needs to have two cars to park in between. So this is much better.

Perhaps pull out works better if you have cars on both sides.

Does the annoying beep only sound inside the car?

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That parking noise in the cabin is horrendous. Another reason to not use that function.

Perhaps if you weren't trying to park in or pull out from a mass of empty spaces... just saying...

try night ?

Am I the only one that drives at about a third the speed he does when trying to find a parking spot?

Love the car but Terrible system though