BMW parking assist fail?
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BMW parking assist fail?
A Florida driver told police that he had a car accident when his parking assistant mechanism malfunctioned.
Sounds like a driver fail to me!
http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/vi...fail.wpbf.html
Sounds like a driver fail to me!
http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/vi...fail.wpbf.html
Yeah this article is being discussed in the 3IS forum to.
Owner claims the car did it.
From the BMW website:
This is completely user error and the owner is a blooming idiot. He should have claimed unintended acceleration if he was going to use an excuse for causing this accidient. Stupid is as stupid does
A faulty parking-assist function has been blamed for sending a car zooming over a parking lot division, crashing into a parked vehicle. No one was injured in the accident.
The incident occurred in the Target parking lot in Stuart, Fla. Jonathon Libratore, 27, told police he was attempting to park when the parking-assist function on his 2013 BMW malfunctioned, causing the vehicle to accelerate over the parking mound and collide with a parked car on the other side, according to the accident report.
Both cars had to be towed from the scene.
Libratore’s infant son was also in the vehicle but was uninjured in the crash, according to the report. ABC News has been unable to reach him.
BMW defended its driver-assistance equipment, saying it is designed to assist drivers with parallel parking and does not control the speed of the car.
“The system does not control the speed of the vehicle at any time,” BMW North America spokesman David Buchko told ABC News. “The driver controls the speed of the vehicle with the accelerator and the brake.”BMW has not been contacted by authorities to investigate the incident, he added.
The incident occurred in the Target parking lot in Stuart, Fla. Jonathon Libratore, 27, told police he was attempting to park when the parking-assist function on his 2013 BMW malfunctioned, causing the vehicle to accelerate over the parking mound and collide with a parked car on the other side, according to the accident report.
Both cars had to be towed from the scene.
Libratore’s infant son was also in the vehicle but was uninjured in the crash, according to the report. ABC News has been unable to reach him.
BMW defended its driver-assistance equipment, saying it is designed to assist drivers with parallel parking and does not control the speed of the car.
“The system does not control the speed of the vehicle at any time,” BMW North America spokesman David Buchko told ABC News. “The driver controls the speed of the vehicle with the accelerator and the brake.”BMW has not been contacted by authorities to investigate the incident, he added.
Owner claims the car did it.
From the BMW website:
BMW Parking Assistant searches for a parking pace, and does the parking for you at the drop of a command. Ultrasonic sensors in the side indicators search for availability when traveling at speeds of up to 22mph. Blue arrows indicate if parking is availiable on the left or right side of the road, while also taking care of steering as you select the correct gear and control accelerator and brake.
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Not completely unrelated, I saw a gray BMW M5 recently that reversed off a ledge and onto the sidewalk. The car was sitting at a 45 degree angle facing into the sky. I wonder if the lady claimed her rear view camera malfunctioned xD
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A Florida driver told police that he had a car accident when his parking assistant mechanism malfunctioned.
Sounds like a driver fail to me!
http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/vi...fail.wpbf.html
Sounds like a driver fail to me!
http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/vi...fail.wpbf.html
I do not know why everyone like to blame the programming at fault. It is almost always user error.
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Reminds me of these GPS Navigation fail stories
@spwolf
It reminds me of that old woman from Belgium who was supposed to travel to Brussels but instead ended up in Zagreb, Croatia.........because her GPS told he to do so
@spwolf
It reminds me of that old woman from Belgium who was supposed to travel to Brussels but instead ended up in Zagreb, Croatia.........because her GPS told he to do so
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How about Japanese tourist driving into the aussie sea, at GPS's insistence?
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headline...o-the-pacific/
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It's a bmw.. I'm surprised it didn't just blow up.
This guy is lucky his BMW actually lasted as long as it did.. my friend's BMW 3 Series lasted a total of 40k Miles before it started literally falling apart on the road. I laughed my *** off driving past him in my Lexus.
The 'L' brand is coming for Beemer's over rated azz......it won't be long before everyone realize BMW is horrible.
Lexus already dominated their pathetic X SUVS. RX destroyed their X.
Soon the combined might of the IS/ES sales will knock down the 3 Series.
Than the GS, than the LS. It's gonna be funny as hell in 2020... when BMW is competing against Volvo in that third tier of luxury cars.
This guy is lucky his BMW actually lasted as long as it did.. my friend's BMW 3 Series lasted a total of 40k Miles before it started literally falling apart on the road. I laughed my *** off driving past him in my Lexus.
The 'L' brand is coming for Beemer's over rated azz......it won't be long before everyone realize BMW is horrible.
Lexus already dominated their pathetic X SUVS. RX destroyed their X.
Soon the combined might of the IS/ES sales will knock down the 3 Series.
Than the GS, than the LS. It's gonna be funny as hell in 2020... when BMW is competing against Volvo in that third tier of luxury cars.
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How about Japanese tourist driving into the aussie sea, at GPS's insistence?
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headline...o-the-pacific/
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I actually had to deal with a lady at work who claimed the same thing when her Ford didn't stop and hit a tree. Pulled out the owners manual and read the part that states it does NOT control the brakes or accelerator and she still said it was Ford's fault because nobody told her. People are just stupid.