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Looks like the Audi A3 Cabriolet has learnt a new trick - it can park itself

The Audi S3’s new Parallel Park Assist system, available across the range, interfaces with the Driver’s Information System (a standard feature on Sport and S-line versions and an optional extra on other models).

Using ultrasonic sensors the system can, at speeds below 19mph, measures length of longitudinal parking spaces and alert the driver, via the DIS system, when it finds one the car can fit in.

Furthermore, the driver only needs to select reverse gear and touch the accelerator and the Park Assist system steers the car into space.

The driver must still operate accelerator, clutch and breaks, but the Park Assist system helps here as well with audible chimes, the frequency of which is dependant on the proximity of solid obstacles (like other parked cars).