You’ve never seen a car park like this!
This page is translated from the original post "Vous n’avez jamais vu une voiture se garer comme ça !" in French.
- 26/08/2024 16:31
Most modern cars already come with automatic parking assistance features. But IM Motors has a little something extra.
IM Motors may not be the most well-known Chinese car manufacturer, but with SAIC and Alibaba as shareholders, it is certainly among the more interesting ones! And to create buzz, nothing beats a little gadget that others don’t have. The manufacturer has presented a new technology that greatly simplifies parking.
In the first video, we can see a woman exiting the car in a parking lot with a huge bouquet of flowers and closing the door with her hip before the car parks itself… sideways! A completely unprecedented lateral parking maneuver. In the second video, the driver performs a small Kamehameha like in DragonBall to send the car to its spot. Guaranteed effect!
There’s nothing magical about it, and it’s guaranteed without any trickery. The sideways “crab” movement is made possible by the all-drive powertrain with independent wheels of the car. This architecture enables vehicles like the new Mercedes G-Class electric or the YangWang U8 SUV to turn in place. The front and rear wheels can turn in different directions to create a torque effect that allows the car to move. Then it only takes setting the right steering angle on the 4 steering wheels to maneuver. Simple on paper, but just imagine the sleepless nights the engineers spent calibrating the system! There’s a small downside though; the parking surface looks very smooth, and we would be curious to see how the operation would perform on rough asphalt. But that’s just nitpicking…
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