2021 Mercedes S-Class - Automated Valet Parking (WORLD’S FIRST)

Stuttgart airport set to welcome fully automated and driverless parking Apcoa, Bosch, and Mercedes-Benz are working to provide the world’s first commercial automated valet parking (AVP) service In the future, a command from a smartphone will tell cars where to park in Stuttgart Airport’s P6 parking garage. The new Mercedes-Benz S-Class is equipped with the technology to enable driverless, fully automated parking (SAE Level 41). For AVP, Bosch is using camera-based infrastructure for the first time to detect lanes and obstacles. The parking garage operator Apcoa is testing barrier and payment functions as the basis for automated valet parking, enabled by its APCOA FLOW digital mobility platform. Automated parking to drive down the airport stress: Bosch, Mercedes-Benz, and the parking garage operator Apcoa want to introduce driverless and fully automated parking at Stuttgart airport in the future. To this end, the automated valet parking (AVP) system co-developed b