Technology is an increasingly big part of our modern-day cars. Today, depending on how many options you tick before ordering your car, the end product could be quite different from case to case, even though the badging on the boot says the same thing. Of course, the aim of all this technology infused in modern-day cars is to make our life easier and more comfortable. But the question is: do you get what you pay for? This test between a BMW 3 Series and a Tesla Model 3 tries to find out.
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The guys from Good Drive had a rather good idea to put some of the tech to the test. Therefore, they set out to have the two cars park themselves on the street. What you should know from the get go is that they are capable of both parallel parking and perpendicular parking. Both cars use their parking sensors to measure spaces as you drive by and figure out if your car could fit in. The first car to get put to the test was the G20 3 Series.
Initially, it did pick up the space the guys were trying to get into. To be fair, the camera does show what looks to be a rather narrow space, and I’m not certain the 3er would’ve fit in there. When the car tried parking in a different spot, the driver intervened because he though the car was going to scrap the vehicle in front. Then they tried again with the same, initial spot and, while the car did park there, it did it perpendicularly, because there simply was not enough room to park it otherwise.
The Model 3 is shown performing a flawless parallel parking maneuver, even though it does take a while to get the car perfectly aligned. In the end though, the BMW does come with a feature the Tesla doesn’t have though: the back-up assistant. With this feature, the car remembers the last 50 meters covered and can reverse automatically, on the exact same path. It’s something that I tested and it comes in handy, especially in tricky, narrow spaces.
:)))) my God the Bmw is completely retarded….it parked in the wrong spot the 1st time, and perpendiculary the 2nd time…:))) this parking feature on the Bmw shouldn’t even be released to the public….I know it’s hilarious but who the hell is writing that software ? it’s insanely both stupid and useless…
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After doing this parking with a g20 many times now …I almost want to guarantee it wont do that
I used the parking function a million times now and it hasnt given me trouble even once…actually saved my ass
TM3 and Tesla in general have very bad autonomous software. BMW, MB, GM etc are toatally superior.
The BMW couldn’t parallel park in that spot because there wasn’t left enough room for it. That’s why it parked behind the car the first time and perpendicular parked the second time. There’s nothing wrong with the software, it was actively preventing you from hitting another car.
Yes yesteday I used a g20 and all the sudden it cancelled its parking and immediately braked when another car was reversing out of the parking spot …it responded so damn fast ….I didnt even see the other car that wanted to reverse I was so impressed
Dunno. Works fine for me but I can always park faster myself. I cannot say the same for the Tesla drivers at work that always seem to take up two spaces.
Seems like the 3-er was treating the space as too small to parallel park in, do BMW state a minimum size space that the G20 can get into? Could also have done with an outside view to judge if the car was going to make it into the second space or not before they called it off.