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Advanced Driver Assistance Systems, such as parking assist systems, are designed to support the driver in his/her driving task. To date, only a few studies exist that investigate the driver's experiences and acceptance while using such systems over time. In this paper, we present the results from a long-term study regarding drivers' experiences with and acceptance of a parking assist system in a newly bought car. We found that there is a change of the drivers' experiences in terms of trust and of certain acceptance factors such as performance expectancy, effort expectancy, attitude towards technology, and social influence over time, highly depending on how certain characteristics of the system (e.g., the auditive signals) are perceived by the driver. Our study confirms the need to take expectations of the drivers, concerning the usefulness of the system, into account when designing parking assist systems. We further conclude that assistance should be given only in situations that really need assistance. Therefore, the situational context (e.g., the size of the parking slot), but also the capabilities of the driver (e.g., his parking skills), should be taken into account.

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