Just been looking at a review, I think you made a good decision.
still looks better than the VW electric camper.
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I have my fingers crossed for that one 
How cool is that ? 
Between the R5 and that, Renault would be on a roll. The Chinese can stick their Build Your Nightmares and MG rogues up their jumper 
An interesting, if not unexpected, outcome of using modern vehicles with in-built recording and telemetry.
Yes not surprised, the more time goes on the closer to a scifi relality we get. Hopefully I will be dead before the full implementation takes place.
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Fairly clear though that this was always where in-car telematics was going.
There was also a big clue when some insurers gave a discount % for taking telematics. Or a penalty for not taking telematics, depending which way you looked at it, for some or all drivers.
As with all sorts of unnoticed data collection these daya though, the real issue is how easily that data once collected and shared/sold onwards, is then matched to other data on you that’s been hoovered up from other sources. Giving a level of completeness and detail on you in places you weren’t aware of/ can’t control/ hadn’t given permission for.
At a macro (groups/statistics) level that data is then valuable beyond all sorts of players’ wildest dreams, which is why they refuse to talk about it, but at a micro (individual/small group(s)) level it’s scary.
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BIG difference though between the insurer doing it with the knowledge and consent of the driver and the car manufacture doing it with neither.
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Some time back I got a telematic ish box from my insurer. It seemed mainly to work on G force. Living in an area with speed bumps everywhere it gave me a poor score. Tried it again under a psuedo name around my mothers area, devoid of speed humps, got an excellent score. Data isnt helpful unless those looking at it understand the whole picture.
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I got sweaty palms just watching this… I think I’m too much of a control freak to let the car park for me.
It’d be OK of you didn’t have to be in it.
Its great and can accomplish what a hell of a lot of French drivers can’t parking without bouncing of the cars next to you.
The problem with many French carparks is that they were built to fit Renault 4s. I’ve got “stuck” on those spiral ramps a couple of times and spent an age “three point turning” to get down/back up them. The generations of multicoloured scrapes on the walls mean I’m not the only one 
The best multistorey carparks are German. Most French and particularly Spanish ones are terrible. Me and mah Trafic tested a lot of them.
No, Monaco has the best underground parking ever. The spaces are huge to accommodate all the supercars.
What happened to Mr Carter
Britain way ahead of the world, now where have I heard that before 
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Must be the BoJo era, or going back to the 2010’ns, when GB were the leader’s in advanced domestic economic decline.
The Brits are good at inventing stuff, but useless at commercialising it. Take public key encryption, as an example. It was discovered by Clifford Cocks, who worked for GCHQ at the time, but remained “classified” until 1997. Meanwhile, a few years later, 3 Americans (Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir and Leonard Adleman… hence RSA) discovered the same thing and became multimillionaires.
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