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The Self-Parking Car

Posted by: David Gest

6 April 2006 - 7:00am

Sit back, relax, and parallel park with the help of Toyota's new Prius.

CBS News correspondent Mark Phillips "showed viewers a steering wheel turning on its own as he kept his hands off and a car pulled into a tight spot, on its own.

All the driver controls is the speed, via the brake peddle.

The car's computer senses when it's time to turn the wheel the other way 'and tuck that little baby in,' Phillips explains."

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Source: CBS News, April 3, 2006
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Now, more than ever, Americans are clamoring to get out of their cars and have more transportation options than the car-centric approach first envisioned and deployed in the 1950s is providing.
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