Ford’s Active Park Assist: So Easy A Dog Could Do It

The following video is from Ford France, announcing the new Ford C-Max with Active Park Assist. If you want to highlight how easy the latest technology is to use, why not use a troop of performing dogs to deliver the message? If you can train Rover to paw the right button, even he can park your car now (or so the commercial would have you believe). It’s not really that easy, since you still need to select Reverse and Drive on the shift lever, then control the car’s accelerator and brake. Still, it’s a cute ad that’s getting huge traffic on YouTube, because who doesn’t like to see dogs executing a hopelessly complex, Rube-Goldberg-like launch sequence? Read more

Lazy People Look Here: Ford’s Active Park Assist System In Action

Is it just me or we getting lazier in America… so lazy that we need a freaking car to parallel park for us? Good grief people, we need to pay for a car to park for us? What’s next, a car that drives itself so we don’t have too? HAHA, let me keep my mouth shut before I put a foot in it.

Here is Ford’s new Active Park Assist system demonstrated in the video below. It is very reminiscent to the Lexus/Toyota parking system which I have included a video of also below. Do you think we will see more of this in the near future or should the automotive companies put more of a focus on saving some gas or maybe NOT needing a bailout?

Videos after the jump…

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