London - The stress of searching for elusive empty bays in busy car parks may one day be a thing of the past, thanks to new 'collaborative parking' technology being tested in the UK.
Drivers can spend, on average, more than a day each year looking for parking spaces, according to a new study commissioned by Ford – and the new technology, being tested this week, displays a "crowd-sourced" map of available spaces, specifically in formal car parks.
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Collaborative parking is powered by data from the parking sensors of vehicles using the car park. This informs the map that shows which spaces may be free – and can also incorporate data from the car parks’ own monitoring systems.