Can’t Find a Parking Spot? Check Smartphone!

[HardOCP News]

Imagine the rat race this is going to start. I can see it now, people roaming the streets with their cell phones, laptops and GPS hunting for parking spaces.

“If the San Francisco experiment works, no one will have to murder anyone over a parking space,” said Donald Shoup, a professor of urban planning at the University of California, Los Angeles.

No, this just means that only the tech savvy will be murdering each other for parking spots.

 

[thejulex]

I think you have a very negative take on a pioneering technology. Once you read the whole article, you will realize how good of a system this will be.

 

[bob]

I think you have a very negative take on a pioneering technology. Once you read the whole article, you will realize how good of a system this will be.

Unless, of course, you happen realize how many other drivers there are on the roads, looking for those same parking spots which are in such short supply.

 

[tel0004]

It will be like musical chairs with cars.

Who will get there first!