What does it mean when the APS light in a car is on?

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DeColin
07/29/25 4:44pm
This indicates a problem with the car's automatic parking system, such as sensor failure, central control system malfunction, etc. The APS system generally includes an environmental data collection system, a central processor, and a vehicle strategy control system. Here is some relevant information: 1. The Automatic Parking System (APS), also known as automated parking, refers to a system where the car can automatically identify available parking spaces and correctly complete the parking maneuver without human intervention, using onboard sensors (parking radar) and a vehicle processor. 2. To achieve correct automatic parking, the vehicle must automatically accomplish two important tasks. First, it must accurately identify available parking spaces, including the speed and accuracy of space recognition. Second, and most importantly, it must smoothly guide the vehicle into the parking space. The automatic parking process can be divided into three parts: space detection, path planning, and path tracking. 3. The automatic parking system perceives environmental information through a sensor system, including video sensors (cameras), millimeter-wave radar, ultrasonic radar, etc. Based on the information from the sensor system, it determines effective parking space information and the vehicle's relative position, thus deciding the initial parking position. The electronic control unit performs real-time environmental modeling based on sensor information, generates the vehicle's motion path, and controls the vehicle to move automatically into the parking space without collision.
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