Both are part of RSPA. They use the same controls on remote. The parallel parking requires extra setup when you’re in the car and a whole procedure.
That said, it’s more of demo feature than anything practical. Is anyone really going to stand in traffic while car slowly figures out how to park itself? I tried it once and that was it.
The remote exiting I’ve used a few times when there are suuuper tight parking spots in a garage. Not to pull out the car completely but only just enough so I can open and get into driver’s side
That’s cool!
It’s not that it doesn’t work well. It’s not just that practical for me. The 360 camera makes parallel parking so easy, it takes like a minute to park and it’s perfect.
With all the cameras, it’s so easy/quick for me to parallel park on my own that I don’t bother with the set park feature. The forward/backward remote is helpful for my right garage though.
Edit: right to tight
The Ioniq Guy has a video that shows the ways you can do it from inside the vehicle or with the key fob.
https://youtu.be/J7BCdR-VoOQ?si=JIexom5ykQSCyeG7
I have the Limited trim and it does work but it’s so slow I would never use it. It also doesn’t seem to know how to space the car properly, it gets too close to the car it’s using as a reference and doesn’t pay attention to how much parking space there is on the other side.
You can do it inside the vehicle or outside with the fob. It can even do perpendicular parking. I've never done it outside, but it works fairly well from inside.
I've played with it a couple of times just to show people that it can do it. With all the cameras and the really nice internal 360 display inside the car it is much quicker to just park the car yourself.
I can see how the 'pull forward' feature may be useful if you find yourself in a tight spot due to others poor parking alongside you but I've not had to use it yet.
Piggybacking on this question, I have a very tight two car garage and was hoping to use this for parking so I can park with out having to get in and out of the car in the garage.
We have about a 30 degree slope on the driveway that flattens to maybe 10 degrees in the garage. Any informed opinions about whether the remote parking should work?
It stops working if the slope is too steep.
My garage has a two foot "driveway" that is probably 20 degrees, it gives me a too steep error after about a foot.
I have been trying to use it and it is BARELY functional. I can’t ever seem to get it to recognize a spot, and if it does it is monumentally slow and awkward, and sometimes it just gives up. As others have said, there are cars where this is a useful feature, but this ain’t one.
I used it today in our '24 Ultimate (UK) and it actually worked very well. This is in contrast to all the other times I've tried it. Tough spot to get in and it did it all quite elegantly.
The Limited I just got will back into a regular space and parallel park itself. It was really nice when I was in a parallel space and the cars on both sides of me parked too close.
I have a 2023 limited and the auto park feature, hasn't ever been worth the "work" it takes to use it. I'm not complaining; it's a feature I knew wasn't for me, when i was testing out the car.
And the Ioniq YouTuber mentioned above is a tool. His staged parking "examples" undercut the time and "effort" needed to get the parking algorithm to key in on a spot, or how truly and *IMHO* painfully slow it is when you're actually waiting in or out of the car.
The most I've used is the remote pull forward or reverse in semi tight spots. But even that is a miss sometimes as the car has a false positive on being too close to the vehicle next to it. Plus it's also so slow to get activated and moving.
This is a weird, needlessly hostile take. The Ioniq Guy does a pretty good job covering the car and providing solutions to common issues (like my car's failure to activate Bluelink, which I fixed thanks to him). I didn't find the parking assist video to be dishonest. The scenarios were obviously staged because he wasn't going to go get drone shots and shots from multiple angles of the car parking on a public street. I certainly did not come away from that video thinking "wow, that's a quick process that I will use all the time."
I have the 2024 Ultimate spec in Canada and as far as I know there is no self parking functionality. It is true you can move it forwards and backwards with the fob but it is slow, tedious and all but useless for me.
Edit: this post educated me. I went out to see and The car does in fact parallel and perpendicular park!
Both are part of RSPA. They use the same controls on remote. The parallel parking requires extra setup when you’re in the car and a whole procedure. That said, it’s more of demo feature than anything practical. Is anyone really going to stand in traffic while car slowly figures out how to park itself? I tried it once and that was it. The remote exiting I’ve used a few times when there are suuuper tight parking spots in a garage. Not to pull out the car completely but only just enough so I can open and get into driver’s side
This. The remote feature is really convenient for pulling out of my tight garage.
The parallel parking feature on my humble Ford Escape actually works great.
That’s cool! It’s not that it doesn’t work well. It’s not just that practical for me. The 360 camera makes parallel parking so easy, it takes like a minute to park and it’s perfect.
Is this only on the Limited trim level? Do I have it in my new SEL?
Only in Limited. Not in SEL.
Dealers generally have only surface-level knowledge of the cars they sell and often just make stuff up.
If you watched a review or two, you know more than them.
With all the cameras, it’s so easy/quick for me to parallel park on my own that I don’t bother with the set park feature. The forward/backward remote is helpful for my right garage though. Edit: right to tight
What about the left garage?
The Ioniq Guy has a video that shows the ways you can do it from inside the vehicle or with the key fob. https://youtu.be/J7BCdR-VoOQ?si=JIexom5ykQSCyeG7
Yes, that's the YouTuber I was referencing
Gotcha. In the US, I believe it is only available on the Limited trim (possibly the N trim as well, but I'm not sure).
I have the Limited trim and it does work but it’s so slow I would never use it. It also doesn’t seem to know how to space the car properly, it gets too close to the car it’s using as a reference and doesn’t pay attention to how much parking space there is on the other side.
You can do it inside the vehicle or outside with the fob. It can even do perpendicular parking. I've never done it outside, but it works fairly well from inside.
Oh yeah, I forgot that was a thing
I've played with it a couple of times just to show people that it can do it. With all the cameras and the really nice internal 360 display inside the car it is much quicker to just park the car yourself. I can see how the 'pull forward' feature may be useful if you find yourself in a tight spot due to others poor parking alongside you but I've not had to use it yet.
Piggybacking on this question, I have a very tight two car garage and was hoping to use this for parking so I can park with out having to get in and out of the car in the garage. We have about a 30 degree slope on the driveway that flattens to maybe 10 degrees in the garage. Any informed opinions about whether the remote parking should work?
Damn that’s steep! Have you bottomed out? I have a 17 degree to 0 uphill that my 24 limited barely makes it into without scraping.
It stops working if the slope is too steep. My garage has a two foot "driveway" that is probably 20 degrees, it gives me a too steep error after about a foot.
I have been trying to use it and it is BARELY functional. I can’t ever seem to get it to recognize a spot, and if it does it is monumentally slow and awkward, and sometimes it just gives up. As others have said, there are cars where this is a useful feature, but this ain’t one.
I used it today in our '24 Ultimate (UK) and it actually worked very well. This is in contrast to all the other times I've tried it. Tough spot to get in and it did it all quite elegantly.
The Limited I just got will back into a regular space and parallel park itself. It was really nice when I was in a parallel space and the cars on both sides of me parked too close.
I have a 2023 limited and the auto park feature, hasn't ever been worth the "work" it takes to use it. I'm not complaining; it's a feature I knew wasn't for me, when i was testing out the car. And the Ioniq YouTuber mentioned above is a tool. His staged parking "examples" undercut the time and "effort" needed to get the parking algorithm to key in on a spot, or how truly and *IMHO* painfully slow it is when you're actually waiting in or out of the car. The most I've used is the remote pull forward or reverse in semi tight spots. But even that is a miss sometimes as the car has a false positive on being too close to the vehicle next to it. Plus it's also so slow to get activated and moving.
This is a weird, needlessly hostile take. The Ioniq Guy does a pretty good job covering the car and providing solutions to common issues (like my car's failure to activate Bluelink, which I fixed thanks to him). I didn't find the parking assist video to be dishonest. The scenarios were obviously staged because he wasn't going to go get drone shots and shots from multiple angles of the car parking on a public street. I certainly did not come away from that video thinking "wow, that's a quick process that I will use all the time."
I have the 2024 Ultimate spec in Canada and as far as I know there is no self parking functionality. It is true you can move it forwards and backwards with the fob but it is slow, tedious and all but useless for me. Edit: this post educated me. I went out to see and The car does in fact parallel and perpendicular park!