Parking Sensor Automatic Brake

While I'm all for keeping things simple, that's not a great reason for not including safety options like this. The concern of false-positives is a valid one, but also one that can be easily handled via 2 mechanisms:

1. Making the feature able to be opt-out ("safe by default")


2. Raising an option on the screen to override the auto-break

Especially when already moving slowly at parking speeds, there should be little danger in coming to a full stop unexpectedly, and an override toggle that lasts for, say, 5 minutes, should suffice.

Now, there are definitely cases where I'm in bumper-to-bumper traffic at very slow speeds where this may trigger, but, again, a hard stop that releases as soon as I step on the brake and release it should be perfectly fine.

I strongly agree, I drove 15,116.0 mile in one trip across the US. I visited 73 superstation and charged over 100 time. I had a dozen close calls while using "Autopilot" Bad name! In total hours, I charged 1 1/2 weeks. A incredible amount of time for anyone traveling. But! during one instance, I had just turned off Autopilot, it was raining and I was making a slow approach to a Red Light. I looked down to see my distance to my next charger, no more than 1-2 Seconds when the car just in front of me stopped sooner than she should have. My car was slowing using the regenative breaking when I hit the car in front. IF! My car had been in adaptive cruise! It would of stopped as it does in traffic! But because I had just turned off all assist. My car sustained in my opinion, a unnecessary impact simply because tesla doesn't have auto breaking turned on. You see other cars using this. AND! Tesla has this operational in cruise control. It's simple software. I incurred thousands of dollars in front end damages just because tesla did not implement a feature already in cruise control.

the driver can be distracted. This feature would have saved me a tail light lens recently

I agree with RFBrost.  His observations are overwhelming valid concerns.

Let's face the issue squarely; At some point the driver is responsible for what the vehicle does.  Remember these are not autonomous driving vehicles.

I have had ice form on my parking sensors when parked. I would hate to have to clear the sensor before I were allowed to proceed. I also have had the branches of a bush trigger the sensor and I wanted to park closer to the bush then the sensor "thought" was safe.

That feature on Volvo's use a forward looking camera, i.e. MobilEye, not the parking sensors.

Volvo has this feature.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Voz4dosVGSM&sns=em