Gotta remember that Android Automotive =/= Android Auto.

Damn... I had that one in my clipboard but you beat me to it. :P

I was hoping Lotus was going to redefine the EV sports car when they announced they were going to make EVs, not make a Tesla-swapped Urus.

I am disappointed.

Lipstick on a pig.

Most would and probably should park someplace else, but if you’re willing to risk the ding, then you're the hero we need, not the hero we deserve.

The only specification the system would be able to control is Toe. Caster, camber and all the rest would still have to be fixed the old way. I shudder to think of how expensive, heavy, complicated, and prone to failure a system that could actually adjust those things in real time would be.

Honestly, the turn signal would be enough. The problem with traditional parking is that the idiots behind you don’t realize what you’re trying to do until they are already too close to let you back into the spot even if you properly signal. With this there is no chance of that. I’ll give them that one point. Still…

Certainly a killer for ride quality, handling, and MSRP. Not sure about anything else.

Oh good, now people who already can’t park will spend an extra minute figuring out how to get into the crabwalk parking mode while blocking traffic. 

I mean, it’s a development demo, not a production demo. It’s gonna have some zipties holding shit together. 

In the case of the commercial, fuck the (fictional) person in the silver SUV for parking like a complete ass. They deserve to not be able to get back into their vehicle without crawling over their center console.

*unsprung, and based on the fact that people are enthusiastic about “sports cars” that weight the better part of 5,000lbs on 20in wheels, nah, not nearly enough people care about weight no matter where it resides within the vehicle.

“Hey guys, check out this cool thing my car can do!”

Even worse than not turning off the lights in a drive through would be flipping the lights on and off every time you scoot forward a car length, and it wouldn’t do anything for approaching a military gate. 

Even with always-on or non-selectable auto-on, I’d want a quick method to shut them off. Even if that setting reverts to default after a power-cycle, having the ability to shut them off in a drive-through or coming up to a military gate is just courteous to the poor bastard sitting in front of me whose side-view or…

As long as the people with auto-headlights that thing their headlights are set to auto actually have their headlights set to auto, I’m all for it. I’ve had people argue with me that their headlights are set to auto and on when I’ve stopped next to them and told them that their lights are just DRL’s and they’ve got…

In town, sure, because there’s street lights. On the interstate away from population centers is a totally different story. It’s especially bad in the rain, when even more people can’t seem to be bothered to turn on their headlights, due to lowered visibility and the fact that their DRLs and headlights both bounce off…

One of the very few features I wouldn’t mind seeing made standard is LED headlights. That said, I should clarify. I would rather see always-on headlights or manual-only headlights rather than DRL’s in any form.

Gotta disagree. If a driver has no DRLs they are a lot more likely to realize their headlights are off. I'd rather have that than the status quo

Agreed, that was also a stupid move