Reply to post: Re: All well and good..

Go park yourself: Brit firm flashes self-parking car tech

The Mole

Re: All well and good..

I assume it is just an extension of the already existing parking assist technology, as a car is driving round the carpark it detects empty spaces and communicates this to other nearby cars - it doesn't matter what is blocking the space and whether that is a smart car, dumb car or shopping trolley.

Fun may be had by either sending spoof messages sending cars driving round randomly (they will check that the space is still empty when they get there) or by painting random sets of parallel lines on the road and watching cars think they are real parking spaces.

If there is no space in this car park presumably the car will just drive to the next car park (or keep circling like meat drivers, or just park in the lane and mover whenever it is blocking another car) though what happens if it runs out of juice on the journey is an interesting corner case.

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