Volvo XC90: Driver support / Park Assist limitations

Park Assist (PAS¹) may not be able to detect all conditions in all situations and functionality may therefore be limited in certain cases.

The driver should be aware of the following Park Assist limitations:

The parking sensors have dead/blind spots where objects cannot be detected.
Pay particular attention to people and animals near the vehicle.
Bear in mind that the front end of the vehicle may swing out towards oncoming traffic during the parking maneuver.

Caution

Objects such as chains, thin and glossy poles or low obstacles may end up in the "signal shadow" and then go temporarily undetected by the sensors – the pulsating tone may then unexpectedly stop instead of becoming a constant tone as expected.

The sensors cannot detect high objects, such as overhanging ramps.

In such situations, pay extra attention and maneuver/drive the vehicle very slowly or stop the current parking maneuver – there may be a high risk of damage to the vehicle or other objects since information from the sensors is not always reliable in such situations.

In some circumstances, the Park Assist System may produce false warnings due to external sound sources with the same ultrasonic frequencies as those the system works with.

Examples of such sources are horns, wet tires on asphalt, pneumatic brakes, exhaust noise from motorcycles, etc.

¹ Park Assist system

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