Driving your car into a cramped parking space can be a harrowing experience, but BMW says it has developed a robotic parking system to solve the problem.

The luxury carmaker’s parking-assist technology will park your car for you as you stand outside and watch, according to BMW during the demo of a working prototype at its Munich headquarters this week.

All you do is press down on a remote-control button and your Beamer parks itself.

Watch the video below to see the system in action.

The parking system is very simple and straightforward to operate. The company says the technology will be available mass-market within three years.

Setting up the parking system involves placing a reflective lens against the wall at the head of the parking space. A miniature video camera on the car’s front windshield measures the distance and angle of the car relative to the lens, while the sensor assumes there is a minimum distance of about 8 inches to the left and right sides of the car.

The car starts its engine, folds in the rearview mirrors and then calculates the trajectory, activating the gas pedal, brakes and turning the steering wheel as necessary.

The system is largely an add-on to the other sensor technologies offered in recent BMW models. For instance, some BMWs have distance-control sensors that help guide parking by emitting audible signals when the car approaches objects to the side or back of the vehicle. In the robotically controlled parking system, these same sensors apply the brakes when objects are detected around or along the car’s trajectory.

The system leverages distance-sensing technology that we’ve seen before from other manufacturers like Mercedes, Toyota, and even my Jeep Grand Cherokee, but requires the sensor, which prohibits use in public parking lots or other situations that may be even more harrowing.