Active Parking - How?

[DerekS]

This is exactly why I find this feature useless. I don’t park in tight spaces ever so I don’t get door dinged when people on either side carelessly open their doors. With my beautiful, dingless after 3 years, Taycan I take the opportunity to park as far away as I can to get a bit of exercise walking rather than look for a wide spot closer in. Nothing worse than having someone you blocked in so tight getting pissed and scratch the side of your car or slam their door into your door as they squeeze through the opening. I could see how it could be useful in my garage which is a bit tight but it incentivizes me to get a few extra steps in, keep my weight in check, so I comfortably fit in my Porsche.

Exactly me. I learned "Porsche parking rules" long ago and adhere to them, I would never take one of the spots Active Parking wants me to, nor would I trust it to to squeeze between them without a crash.

I might let it attempt a parallel park one day.

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[SoccerMan94043]

Because of this thread I purposely activated this a couple of times yesterday. It was all city street parallel parking options. And yes, for me it would only detect spots if there was at least one car. I guess it figures if there are no cars, there is no need for “active support”? With only one car, I’d get the option to park behind it.

This was the case in my two experiences.

 

[targa666]

All it lacks is a “ding protector”. Let’s see, you’re going to park what is to you an expensive car *close* to two other unknown, maybe sober, drivers or to two other ding-bat shoppers in the mall all excited about their purchases who can’t wait to jump in and leave for home. what could go wrong?

I have the feature and used it once 4 years ago. The video shows this car creeping into the space, allowing time to abort a pending disaster. Mine, a 21 4S, *zips* into the chosen spot. Nein, danke. I try to choose remote spaces if available and park myself.

Yeah, it’s apparently a race to get in the spot as fast as possible and then emergency brake for the curb that wasn’t detected earlier
Happens like this 9/10 times! I got used to it and really love the feature ( though I have to admit I’m getting handier myself with this colossal car as well)

 

[M3Taycan]

I was able to get the Remote Parking option via the Porsche App working again. The last time I used it was 1 year ago.

Remote Parking:

• If you receive a Parking process canceled error message, check System Limitations. I had the Lift active for chassis height while entering or exiting the garage. Once I set the chassis height to regular, Remote Parking was operational.
• If an object (such as a garage door in my case) obstructs the direction of travel, the parking process is interrupted.

 

[laua]

I’ve tried it to parallel park a couple of times. Never successfully parked. Both times my sense was the angle was way off and it’d hit the curb. There was also no sense it was going to brake. On the other hand, it also goes very slow so I was backing up traffic on the street so both times I terminated it half way and parked myself.

I much prefer Volvo’s approach where you apply the brakes yourself as the car steers. Makes me feel like I’m in control yet it does simplify parallel parking, and I’m much more comfortable using that vs the Porsche implementation.

 

[whitex]

I thought remote parking could be useful for parking in a makeshift shipping container garage, but it refused to do it.
As the Pcarwhisperer notes it requires 8.5' clearance width and it would only have 7.8', maybe there's a setting in PIWIS.

Yea, I thought so too, then realized the system is not very capable at all, as I have to disable Maneuvering Assist when parking at my home garage, or else the car will slam on the brakes while parking (which is not very pleasant either, feels like hitting a wall).

 

[DerekS]

I’ve tried it to parallel park a couple of times. Never successfully parked. Both times my sense was the angle was way off and it’d hit the curb. There was also no sense it was going to brake. On the other hand, it also goes very slow so I was backing up traffic on the street so both times I terminated it half way and parked myself.

I much prefer Volvo’s approach where you apply the brakes yourself as the car steers. Makes me feel like I’m in control yet it does simplify parallel parking, and I’m much more comfortable using that vs the Porsche implementation.

I tried it one more time yesterday on a parallel spot, and ended up aborting for exactly the same reasons.

Active Parking was not worth losing the curbrash cam that my J1's had.

 

[whitex]

From all these posts, one thing is obvious, it's a party trick to play with once in a while, but nobody finds it particularly useful (or even possible) to use reliably use it all the time.

 

[targa666]

From all these posts, one thing is obvious, it's a party trick to play with once in a while, but nobody finds it particularly useful (or even possible) to use reliably use it all the time.

I do! I really use it quite a lot. Got the confidence in the system and accepting the emergency braking that comes quite often with laughter
Only backing in parralel spots btw. Never did an side of the street

 

[gnr3312]

Tbh I think it’s the same for all cars. Used to have a few MBs that had it and I never used it. Like others have said, I just didn’t trust it or I was never in a position to leave the car parked in a tight space. No thank you.

 

[bereader]

From all these posts, one thing is obvious, it's a party trick to play with once in a while, but nobody finds it particularly useful (or even possible) to use reliably use it all the time.

It has never once worked for me, ever. I thought something was wrong until I found almost everyone else experiences the same thing. Literally crawling past oodles of open parking spots, not once has it shown that it can park itself. My BMW, on the other hand, works flawlessly. The trade-offs of owning a Porsche I suppose.

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