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A\u00a0number of high-profile stories about self-driving vehicles have been in the news lately, including Google\u2019s announcement of over\u00a01.7 million self-driven<\/a>\u00a0miles,\u00a0Apple\u2019s hiring of auto industry executives<\/a>, and Elon Musk’s forecast of a\u00a0fully-autonomous Tesla in three years<\/a>.<\/p>\n Three years before the debut of commercially available cars means more like 10 for those of us who aren\u2019t likely to be the early adopters.<\/p>\n While I like driving, I hate coming out to a parking lot to find my car trapped by a \u201cparking challenged\u201d driver. So when I saw the\u00a0Daimler’s new<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em>smartphone app<\/a>\u00a0that\u00a0drives your car out of a tight parking spot for you<\/strong><\/em>, <\/strong><\/em>I was immediately interested!<\/p>\n The first car available with this feature, the Mercedes Benz\u00a02017 E-Class, was\u00a0unveiled <\/a>at the Detroit auto show\u00a0last month.<\/p>\n Daimler, who previously shared how they use\u00a0MATLAB and Simulink for modeling and code generation<\/a>, previewed this “remote parking pilot” technology at the MathWorks Automotive Conference in Stuttgart, Germany in September, 2015. Here’s a video that shows how it works:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n