The fact that we don't have reliable, fully automated parking yet is bizarre. I'd love a solution that automatically parallel parks for me, and a computer with sensors around the vehicle should be able to do a better job. Plus, the problem is of limited scope, and low speed, so you don't have to deal with most of the potential issues and dangers with full self driving on a road.
BMWs have had that for quite a while. My 2016 5 series does it perfectly 100% of the time. It even gets into some spots that I consider way too short, but it surprises me.
My 2015 Model S does parallel parking between two other cars quite well. It will also reverse into the space between two cars parked perpendicular to the road.
Now that I see your list of manufacturers, I can only think: “of course, manufacturers don’t do squat in a car, Bosh, or some other equipment company did it and sold it to all the manufacturers”
That's pretty typical. And sometimes when the car manufacturer gets particularly good at parts subsystems, they spin that off into a separate company. E.g. Delphi. It's nice, because then we see awesome things like magnetic ride show up on more than just GM performance cars.
Tesla has autopark on all their models. It is terrible. I can barely ever activate it because it doesn't recognize parking spaces. It will curb your wheels. It's very slow. I'm certain that if I used it on a daily basis it would have collided with something by now.
