2008 - PACE Award Winner Valeo Interior Controls What: Park 4U Semi-Automatic Parallel Parking Judge's Citation: Market research shows that 70% of car drivers are interested in automatic parking ...

To commemorate 25 years of PACE Awards for supplier innovation, Automotive News each week looks back at one of the many winners. 2008: Valeo Interior Controls Trade name: Park 4U semi-automatic ...

Remember when manufacturers were forced to remove options from their cars due to pandemic-led chip shortages? Ford has decided to strike tech conveniences from its products yet again, only this time, ...

It's been 16 years since Ford introduced Active Park Assist, the one-button automatic parallel parking feature that saved drivers across the globe entire minutes of mild embarrassment while parking on ...

Parking your car is one of the most elemental of driving tasks, but for some drivers, it’s also one of the most difficult. Sometimes it’s hard to figure out where the car ends and obstacles begin, and ...

The process of parking a car has gone largely unchanged since the invention of the automobile, and the same problems that existed over 100 years ago remain today, mainly the goal of not to damage your ...

Back in the 1930s, a Californian inventor was thinking about how cars were getting too big, while parking spaces seemed to be growing smaller. He decided parallel parking could be made easier by ...

I'd love to know how many wheels are curbed and bumpers are tapped each year in attempts to parallel park. There's a whole industry of rubber bumper guards built around how difficult parking alongside ...