Parking Control

[trakehner]

BMW calls it Park Distance Control, MB calls it Parktronic, what is the official name of Audi's parking sensor device?

How effective are these parking devices? If a gentleman is backing up, will they pick up a toddler who is crawling on the ground below the height of the bumper?

[Ra5a]

Originally posted by trakehner
BMW calls it Park Distance Control, MB calls it Parktronic, what is the official name of Audi's parking sensor device?

How effective are these parking devices? If a gentleman is backing up, will they pick up a toddler who is crawling on the ground below the height of the bumper?
it's impressive..
it picks up everything.. even (long) grass :)

audi only has audio warnings.. mb & bmw have audio and visual (7 en 5 serie)
i have it on my car.. and it has saved me from a lot of bumpers..

[Snow]

Well, MB's version (in a CLK) works excellent. I think that a visual warner is a lot better than an audio signal. Can't comment on the others, but in a test drive a Swedish tv-show made with the new 5-series, he wasn't pleased at all because it was too sensitive.
Just as Ra5a said, it even picked up high grass.