I saw an ad on TV for this camera system on a car and it blew my mind. It was so amazing I had to look into how it works. When you see it, you're going to wish your car had it. 

The video shows a BMW F10 parallel parking itself while showing an overhead view of the car.

 

 

The car uses several wide angled lens cameras mounted at various points on the body to achieve what is called 'surround view.' It makes it appear that there is a camera floating over the car showing a top down view of everything around it.

In reality, the car show on the screen is just a graphic but the surrounding area is shown in real time. The camera system allow the car to park itself with minimal intervention from the driver. Amazing!

The feature isn't cheap though, but years ago neither was air conditioning and power windows and those are pretty much standard these days. Hopefully this will be the standard before I die.

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