So Far I'm not happy with the parking assist feature. Either I'm not doing it right or it needs to be reprogrammed. For example, I was just testing it out and wanted to park straight into the available front parking spot and it did not go there and another time I braked because I felt the front part of my NX might hit the curb. Does anyone use this feature much and what do you think of it?

 

Are you talking about the Intuitive Parking Assist feature or the Advanced Park feature.

 

I've used it a handful of times to try it out cause it seems really cool IMO. I backed into the parking spaces in each instance and my only complaint is that I would have preferred that it back in another 8 inches or so. It was aligned correctly each time. I don't think I'll use this again mostly because I can do it faster and just as accurately with the backup camera and 360 degree view.

 

Advanced park feature works pretty good, it just depends of situation and what is around you that it may have some problems recognizing and therefore not parking itself very good or at all, but it most cases if the marking are visible and even better if you parking between two cars, it works great. In most cases 360 is enough for you to park the car yourself

 

Here's my experience on it. I prefer to park myself most of the time. I feel it parks too fast sometimes and ran blunder. It takes some time to get use though but nice feature overall.

 

Rubbing wheels to the curb like in the last attempt is show stopper🤦‍♂️. It needs much more work to be ready for the prime time.

 

I found that when I tried it out a few times in a busy parking lot it would always stop if someone was walking nearby the car or if another car came down my lane. So you can count it out if you're using it in a busy Costco lot! It's a party trick at best. Find it a little slow even on fastest setting too.

I'm sure theres so many situations that this will stop working when it's been initiated to park. I would imagine bad rain or snow, I tried it out with poor faded parking spot lines and it gave up, it wasn't sure about them.

They went as far as to 'just' make it work but didn't put any robust effort into it to work in various real life settings.

 

Hopefully they will push a software update to fix it. That's one reason why I haven't been using it.

 

Ultrasonic sensors are probably the worst kind of sensor to detect curbs, but they are a lot cheaper. Radar and lidar are far better but at a cost. That's probably why in the video the car parked closer to the curb because the other car was also parked closer to the curb, the system was relying more on the camera views then the ultrasonic sensors (and I suspect cameras could be potentially fooled by curbside debris). It may be a challenge to improve this without additional side mounted ultrasonic or other types of sensors. Additionally, integrating additional sensor input and/or more sophisticated algorithms may require a more powerful CPU. Most car manufacturers beyond perhaps Tesla don't really put a lot of effort into developing improved software for existing cars unless it presents as a serious safety issue. Its cheaper to unleash their lawyers with hundreds of pages of warning messages in the manual why things won't always work.