Chinese Automaker BYD Offers Fully Autonomous Parking for Cars

What Happened?

Chinese electric vehicle manufacturer BYD now offers fully autonomous parking for some of its electric vehicles. The technology enables BYD cars to navigate a parking lot, find a parking space, and park without any human input. BYD has expressed a high degree of confidence in its self-parking technology, even offering to pay for any damage that might occur while the self-parking mode is engaged. 

The self-parking technology developed by BYD is known as ‘God’s Eye,’ which is a suite of technology combining cameras, LIDAR, and other sensors into one cohesive system which works together as a single processor. 

Why it Matters

BYD’s new capability makes it the first carmaker to offer fully autonomous self-parking. Several car makers offer partial self-parking features, and Mercedes-Benz offers a limited autonomous parking ability which is restricted to a single parking garage in Stuttgart equipped with custom sensors. Several other notable car makers, including Tesla, have long sought but failed to deliver vehicles that can be parked without any human input.

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According to Fast Company, even the basic version of God’s Eye includes twelve cameras, five millimeter-wave radars, and a dozen ultrasonic sensors with one-centimeter accuracy. The mid-level God’s Eye B adds a lidar sensor, while the premium God’s Eye A variant utilizes three lidar sensors for increased precision. 

The system works by combining inputs from all sensors into a single integrated three-dimensional map of the car’s surrounding environment. That provides a detailed picture of terrain, objects, and the space around the vehicle. According to BYD, over one million vehicles currently have some version of the God’s Eye system in use today. 

How did BYD achieve this breakthrough? BYD CEO Wang Chuanfu has claimed the company employs over 5,000 artificial intelligence engineers specifically devoted to solving autonomous parking problems within the system. The most advanced God’s Eye system can reportedly identify potholes in the road ahead and jump over them in time to avoid bumps. 

Fully autonomous self-parking could be a timesaver for drivers in crowded urban areas. Instead of circling the block looking for a place to park, drivers could simply instruct their vehicle to park on their own. In addition, the detailed three-dimensional mapping capability employed for self-parking could also be extended to allow for longer self-driving ranges. 

The BYD self-parking technology is definitely a stride towards fully autonomous vehicles. 

How it Affects You

Though BYD cars are not currently available for purchase in the United States, they are available to drivers in Europe, Asia, and South America. If their popularity grows sufficiently abroad, public pressure could grow on lawmakers here in the United States to lift high tariffs which are a major reason why BYD does not sell its cars to American markets.