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Spooky ProPILOT Park Furniture Self-Arranges in Nissan's Ryokan

Last October, Japanese manufacturer Nissan introduced together with the new Nissan Leaf its own parking assist feature, called ProPILOT Park. Nothing great about that, as such a technology is, usually, employed on vehicles from brands all around the world.
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Nissan, however, thought to make this technology both fun and easier to understand. So it integrated it into slippers, tables and floor cushions found at its ProPILOT Park Ryokan, located in Hakone, Japan. What does this mean?

It simply means the objects mentioned earlier move around the establishment as if possessed by some sort of furniture demon. Sure, they don't run where ever they want, but the simple act of seeing a bunch of slippers parking themselves in pure Japanese order on the wooden floor can give you the creeps.

Nissan is particularly proud of those slippers, and it showcases them even at a dedicated exhibition booth located at its Yokohama headquarters. Apart from showcasing to the inn's guests the ProPILOT Park technology, Nissan also says the poltergeist-slippers “reduce staff workload.”

The Park feature thus showcased by Nissan uses automated steering, braking and throttle inputs for various parking maneuvers. Positioning the car is done via image processing technology using four high-resolution cameras and information from 12 ultrasonic sensors placed around the vehicle.

Once the parking process is completed, the system automatically sets the electronic parking brake and shifts the transmission to the “P” position.

“The system can automatically identify a parking space around the car so that the driver doesn't need to set a target parking position. Requiring only three easy steps for activation, this technology liberates drivers from one of the most tedious, and at times the most challenging, tasks of driving,” says Nissan.

ProPILOT Park is part of a broader set of driver assist technologies released by Nissan in recent years. The features in Nissan's system include automatic speed control, driving distance control, and steering control. ProPILOT is designed for highway use in single-lane traffic.

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About the author: Daniel Patrascu
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Daniel loves writing (or so he claims), and he uses this skill to offer readers a "behind the scenes" look at the automotive industry. He also enjoys talking about space exploration and robots, because in his view the only way forward for humanity is away from this planet, in metal bodies.
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