APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING PARKING ASSISTANCE

Aspects of the present invention relate to a control system (200) for a vehicle (100), the control system comprising one or more processors collectively configured to: identify, using one or more sensors (220) of the vehicle, a parking space (302, 502) in proximity to the vehicle; determine a region of interest (350) of the identified parking space; determine, using one or more sensors, that the vehicle is at least partially located within the region of interest; while the vehicle is determined to be at least partially located within the region of interest: determine that one or more conditions are satisfied for outputting an automated parking operation prompt, the one or more conditions comprising a predetermined number of directional changes performed by a user of the vehicle; and output the automated parking operation prompt.