BMW to demonstrate self-parking technology at CES 2015

At this year’s Consumer Electronics Show, BMW gave us our first taste of its new ActiveAssist autonomous technology in the form of a 2-Series prototype that could handle itself while driving at the limit. At next year’s show, which runs from January 6 to 9 in Las Vegas, BMW will show an i3 prototype equipped with a more advanced version of its ActiveAssist technology. The latest version of ActiveAssist features highly-accurate position and environment recognition systems that rely on a myriad of sensors including new laser scanners. This allows a vehicle to manoeuvre in almost any situation a driver may encounter, using a 360-degree view. BMW will demonstrate the technology in a parking lot. Four advanced laser scanners record the environment and reliably identify impediments such as columns using a digital site plan of a building. Using a special watch linked to the vehicle, the driver, now out of the vehicle, can instruct the ActiveAssist technology to steer the vehicle autonomously through the parking lot.