Valet mode ?

Interesting idea.

 

+1. I like it. And also have it save the clutch! Hey maybe there's an app
If I hear a valet say "Don't worry I know how to drive this car" again by someone whose experience is limited to their valet job and xBox, I tell you what! And the valet who acts like the $50 tip to just leave it where it sits doesn't cut it and he needs the key to move the car around, etc.... irritating BS IMO.

 

I love this idea! Amazing that it hasn't been done by any kind of luxury manufacturer yet.

 

This has "Shark Tank" written all over it. Make a retro-fit. Maybe have it run completely off electric motor.

 

Lots of other cars have had this for decades... great idea but not a new one (a separate valet key and it reduces hp and access to locked compartments like trunk and glove box). I agree Ferrari should incorporate it. But then again a $40K car comes with cruise control, great a/c and stereo and a $325K Ferrari doesn't.

 

most of the car companies have the app already. I know for sure that bmw has a rev and speed limiting function. Tesla can even tell you how fast and what distance has been made via app. It is a technology already establishing fast.

 

How does the BMW system work? Not technically, but how does the owner activate it, if you know about it?

 

Was this for me?
I have a new BMW on order and have never heard of such systems before. Just wondered how they work.

 

My car is always on no valet mode. I refuse to valet it. I mainly take it for canyon runs. When I need to valet park a car, I just take my five year old beater.

 

I have worked as a valet before and have driven a variety of cars. I remember taking an e92 M3. we needed to pull out onto a busy street to get to the other lot for parking and so needed to use a little more speed to merge. This one had the revs limited at 3k rpm and did not let me go above 35mph. I could imagine that the valet mode could be activated on the iDrive. I did not check since it was not my car.
At a different event a guest that owned a tesla came out and we starting talking about the car as it was new at the time. He showed me an app on his Iphone where I could see exactly the route that the car took, the speed, the kw used and time of travel. He was fully informed. Its definitely a good monitoring tool.

 

The E9X M3 did not have any type of valet mode. What it did have was an adjustable rev limiter, but this was designed to protect the engine. When the car was cold, the rev limiter was lowered to about 5k rpm to reduce the chance of damage. As the car warmed up, the rev limiter would go back to normal. I had a 2011 M3 sedan and can 100% say that the rev limiter was never below 5k rpms. From what you said above, it sounds like you were bouncing off of the limiter. Had you up shifted you would have been able to go over 35mph.

I currently have a '14 M5 and there is no "valet mode" at all. It doesn't exist with BMWs. There is no setting for anything like that within the iDrive.

My guess is that it would be a huge liability. Imagine this scenario...

A guy drops off his 575bhp M5 at the valet and doesn't tell him that it is in this new "valet mode". The owner set the "valet mode" to 35mph or 3k RPM. The valet has to bring the car around the corner to the parking lot. As the valet pulls out in traffic he is unable to accelerate enough to get up to the speed limit (imagine a 45mph limit) and gets in an accident.

In this litigious society I imagine the lawsuits would be plentiful.

 

I'm not saying you're wrong. I would actually like a "valet mode". I'm just thinking that the ambulance chasers would have a field day with this one.

Also, what are Highlights? The only Highlights I know was the magazine that I would read in my doctors office when I was a kid.

 

Yes. "Limp mode" in a car with 600 hp will likely still chuck a Toyota Corolla every time.

 

The best valet mode is to avoid valet parking all together.

 

It was actually a highway. The only time we did not have merging problems was after 10:30pm when we brought cars back to main lot after spots opened. In addition the supervisor were up our a** that we move out quick to not block potential incoming traffic. i never used 100% power on the cars. Just enough so I would get in and go steadily with the flow. It is after all someone elses property.

 

+1 after having seen how other valets work I will never valet again

 

It probably was the rev limiter. I tried to upshift via padles and had no chance of more speed.

 

+1 million

No one is getting the keys to my car.