- Hyundai’s Super Bowl ad for the 2020 Sonata mid-size sedan showcases a feature called smart park.
- We tested this system for ourselves to see how—and how well—it works.
- The 2020 Hyundai Sonata is on sale now, and smart park is available only on the top Limited trim level that starts at $34,455.
Hyundai’s ad for the Super Bowl shows off one of the new 2020 Sonata’s interesting new features: a system called remote smart parking assist—or “smaht pahk,” as it’s referred to by the heavily Boston-accented David Ortiz, John Krasinski, Chris Evans, and Rachel Dratch in the TV spot.
These Are the 2020 Hyundai Sonata’s Cool Features
2020 Hyundai Sonata Has Beauty and Brains
We Drive Hyundai’s Sonata N-Line Prototype
This feature can maneuver the car into and out of tight parking spaces without a driver at the controls, and we tested it for ourselves. No, it doesn’t work quite as seamlessly as it looks in the ad, but yes, it does work. There are two ways to initiate operation: you can hit a button before you exit the car, or, if the car is parked, you have to remote-start it first using the fob. Then you control the parking function with forward and reverse buttons on the key fob.
To try to stump the system, we tried throwing a cone into its path as well as standing in the way (as shown in the video above), and it reliably stopped short of hitting anything every time. The system will also steer slightly if it detects objects, but mostly it just goes forward and backward, like earlier iterations of Tesla’s Smart Summon feature.
The 2020 Sonata starts at a reasonable $24,555, but to get the smart park feature you’ll have to pony up for the top Limited trim level, which costs $34,455 to start.
Source: Motor - aranddriver.com
