Ford Motor Company has filed a patent for a remote parking control feature that may be used in future Ford EVs, Ford Authority has learned.
The patent was filed on June 28th, 2021, published on October 8th, 2024, and assigned serial number 12110022.
The Ford Authority Take
The Blue Oval has filed a handful of patents aimed at different ways future Ford EVs and other types of vehicles may be able to perform tasks such as parking a bit easier, or at least, in a more automated fashion – a list that includes an in-flight EV remote parking system, key fobs with remote park-assist functionality, a remote maneuvering system, and a remote park assist feature with augmented reality. Now, this newly published patent presents us with another interesting idea – this time, for a remote parking control feature that may be used in future Ford EVs, too.
As Ford points out in this patent, it imagines a future in which electric vehicles can be charged while they’re being towed – via in-flight charging systems – and if that is indeed the case, there’s a need to make towing vehicles a bit easier and quicker than current methods. As such, it proposes using a remote parking control feature that would use cameras to capture images of an EV and transmit them to a smartphone or other device, along with overlays that would guide the tow vehicle operator into the perfect position to do precisely that, without having to get out of the vehicle.
This system would be able to show the tow vehicle driver quite a bit of information, in fact, all after ensuring that the vehicle it’s trying to tow is in park. After that, it could use a series of cameras and sensors to lay out the perfect path, and the tow vehicle could also move itself into position autonomously, as Ford notes here. It’s an interesting idea for certain, and one that may eventually make in-flight charging quite easy to do.
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This is clearly so Ford can repossess their overpriced crap buckets nobody can afford anymore. Repo truck automatically backs itself right to the ev being repossessed without the 300 lb repoman ever having to get out of his sweat stained seat.