valet parking #2
valet parkingは「（ホテル・レストランなどの）係員つき駐車（場）」のことで、valetと呼ばれる専属の係員が車の駐車場への出し入れをしてくれるサービスがある駐車場です。
東京では築地のなんとかというレストランがこのシステムを採用しています。それをクルマの自動駐車システムに使っているところが面白いですね。（UG）
Honda develops automated valet parking service
There’s no pleasure to be found in navigating through a crowded parking lot hunting for a space. That’s why Honda is looking to take this task off drivers’ hands with an automatic valet parking system.
Engineers at Honda are hard at work on a system that will let your car park itself, plus come pick you up when you’re ready to go home. Drivers simply pull up to a terminal, exit their vehicle, input the proper commands, and their car automatically slides into an empty spot in the lot.
The system is even able to park multiple cars at the same time, taking into account their relative positions in order to prevent collisions.
Honda’s self-parking cars can even detect and avoid objects that suddenly dart across their path, such as the rubber ball used in the demonstration.
The system, which Honda is hoping to have finished by 2020, works by combining data from the car’s rear-view camera with visuals from camera mounted in the parking lot, creating a map of the area and directing the car to empty spaces marked on the ground.
http://www.japantoday.com/category/technology/view/honda-develops-automated-valet-parking-service
