Anyone using Auto Park feature?

[LRCasey]

I noticed there hasn't been a posting regarding Auto Parking in almost a year. Either it's working great for everyone...or no one is using it.

I've had my Model 3 for 2 years and never tried Auto Park until this week. I thought I might as well try it to parallel park against a curb. I pulled up to the correct position and initiated Auto Parking. The car began to back up and continued right into the curb. Luckily it was as such a sharp angle that it didn't scrape up my custom rims. It was only embarrassing due to the people standing on the sidewalk looking at me like I was a student driver. I turned off Auto Park and parked manually w/o an issue.

Is it not meant to be used when a curb is present? Most parallel parking I see is exactly that.

Thanks.
-Larry

 

[zhu-]

I've used autopark maybe 2-3 just to show friends. It worked quite well for me but I never actually use it because it's so slow. I can park myself in half the time.

 

[Chisale]

If parallel parking then it comes in handy because I just don't do it that much to be good. But standard perpendicular parking? Very rarely. It just takes too long. What happens more often than not is a car comes zooming up the lane and then the driver gets really annoyed that you are taking so long to get the car landed and you know they are thinking that driver's ed programs should really be expanded in this country.

 

[tjkessler]

I've tried it a few times. It's very slow and awkward. In busing parking garages and our little downtown areas here I find it holds up traffic and that using it when others are around is rude.

 

[JulienW]

I noticed there hasn't been a posting regarding Auto Parking in almost a year......

In a nutshell this is THE problem with Auto Park. It hasn't been updated or improved much in a while. It will have to receive a major update when Reverse Summon is implemented.

 

[UncleCreepy]

Tried it a few times when I had a FSD trial. It's way slower than parking the car manually, plus I didn't like that the computer would turn the steering wheel while the car wasn't moving.
I don't have it anymore and I don't miss it.

 

[SalisburySam]

I’ve tried to try it many times, but it has never once showed me the symbol P to indicate self parking. Actually, not true, I did see it twice but both times I was in traffic waiting for a light, not parking. So in almost two years, never once has parked itself perpendicularly or parallel. Failed feature for me. But I can park myself pretty well so I don’t car all that much.

 

[LRCasey]

Thanks for all the responses. I don't plan to use it again either. I can competently park.

It's a feature that sounds cool when announced but then nobody ends up using it.

 

[john5520]

Never used it, and like summon, don't trust it around other cars. I can see it being useful to someone who is elderly or have a disability though.

 

[Aellinsar]

I rarely parallel park (maybe once every couple months?) and have used it a couple of those times. I like it for that application. I agree with most that perpendicular parking is useless.

 

[Petermcg]

I’ve used it a dozen times or so, mainly just to see how it does. I’ve never had it fail - it’s just so painfully slow that you need a free afternoon to complete. I usually just park manually.

 

[XLR82XS]

It worked quite well for me but I never actually use it because it's so slow. I can park myself in half the time.

Exactly.

 

[GenralSpecific]

Just used it ten minutes ago to back in to a spot in my workplace parking lot. I just wanted to do it, heck I paid for it, may as well...

 

[GalacticHero]

I use it every time I Supercharge and need to back in between two other Teslas. Slow is better than scraping someone else's car. I also use it for parallel parking. Same issue, I'd rather have slow than hitting someone else's bumper. [Sorry, after 40 years of driving my ability to judge close distances is not going to improve.]

 

[1.21GW]

Tried it a few times. Too slow to be practical