What does it mean when parking assist is turned off?
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Parking assist system being turned off means it is temporarily unavailable and needs to be activated for use. Below are relevant explanations: Function: The parking assist system helps drivers easily park in crowded parking spaces, avoiding scratches and collisions. The reverse radar can inform the driver about surrounding obstacles through sounds or more intuitive displays, eliminating the trouble caused by the driver looking around while reversing, and helping the driver overcome blind spots and unclear vision, thereby improving reversing safety. Drawbacks: Automatic parking also has its drawbacks, such as high requirements for parking spaces. For example, it usually requires the width of a vertical parking space to be about 1 meter wider than the car, meaning there should be at least half a meter of space on each side of the car, which might be challenging for beginners to reverse into such a wide space.
As a novice who has just learned to drive, I pay special attention to those assistance functions. The meaning of parking assist being turned off is that the system is deactivated and no longer helps you by automatically alerting you to obstacles or controlling the steering wheel during reversing. It might be that I accidentally turned off the switch in the vehicle settings menu, perhaps to save power or for a quieter experience; or the system might have malfunctioned, such as sensors being covered by mud or wiring issues causing it to shut down on its own. Once turned off, parking relies entirely on your own senses and observation, making it easy to scrape against walls or poles, which is quite risky. I recommend regularly checking the vehicle settings interface to see if the parking assist status is enabled and cleaning the sensor areas on the car body. Practicing reversing skills more often while driving can compensate for this absence, after all, safety comes first.
