Honda Unveils Automatic Valet Parking System at ITS World Congress

The Future of Driverless Cars

Driverless cars are the future – but we all know that. However, the improvements coming along the way still don’t fail to excite us as we get a glimpse of how cars will be driven 10 or 20 years from now.

Challenges of Autonomous Parking

One of the challenges of autonomous cars is parking. Numerous manufacturers have introduced their take on the self-parking system, and now Honda has unveiled an automatic valet parking system at the Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) World Congress in Tokyo.

Honda's Innovative Solution

Previously, we posted an article about Ford’s autonomous system, which lets the driver park the car without being in it. Honda has stepped it up a notch by giving it a more commercial appeal.

How the System Works

Honda's system allows multiple cars to park automatically in the designated parking spots using the cars’ rear-view cameras and the parking lot cameras. They are proposing this new system to malls and hypermarket chains with the idea being that:

• Customers can leave their cars outside the parking lot.
• They can go shopping while the cars park themselves.
• When they are done shopping, they can simply call the car outside and head on their way back.

Benefits for Shoppers

In this way, little or no time will be lost in finding parking spaces, which is a major concern for shoppers today.

Watch the Demo

You can watch the demo below: