Tag: PARKING

Vehicles equipped with self-parking technology already serve drivers with limited parallel parking skills. Parking-challenged residents of Birmingham, England no longer have to wait for automobile-assisted guidance, though, thanks to a new futuristic garage at the city's Cube complex. The three-story-deep subterranean car cave employs a $3 million robotic system that, according to the BBC, ...

Drivers in the gloriously progressive city of San Francisco may soon have a lot less trouble finding curb-side real estate, thanks to a high-tech parking system that the city has just begun testing. The San Francisco Metro Transit Authority's SFpark project is a two-year, federally funded endeavor, aimed at making city parking less stressful, and more efficient. As part of the project, the SFMTA ...

As India's middle class has swollen in recent years, so too has its share of untrained drivers. As a result, the country now endures more traffic-related fatalities than any other nation, and weaving through any of its major cities has become a feat of Herculean proportion. Police in Delhi, though, recently stumbled upon an entirely new approach to controlling the city's roadway pandemonium: ...

Share When it comes to finding prime parking spots in the middle of dense, concrete jungles, even the most mild-mannered of drivers can revert to their more primitive, animalistic roots. As summer road warriors jockey with each other for curbside position, tempers flare, heart rates rise, and torrents of expletives gush out of driver-side windows. That inherently cutthroat atmosphere, however, ...

So this doesn't really help non-New York City residents. And for the moment, it only makes a difference to those who happen to dwell in the Park Slope area of Brooklyn [Ed. Note: Some of us do!]. But a startup called Roadify is testing out some interesting stuff. 'Parking Around Me' (PAM) is a text messaging service for finding parking spots. Users text "get" and their location, in the form of ...

If you thought you had enough to worry about on your computer when it comes to avoiding viruses, now you're going to have to start worrying about stumbling across them in the real world, too. Reports are hitting the Web of malicious people in North Dakota distributing fake parking tickets directed users to a virus-serving Web site. The bogus parking tickets were printed on official-looking ...

We dig the idea in theory, we really do, but we can definitely see this causing more harm than good. Starting this fall, San Francisco will begin a trial involving wireless parking sensors in 6,000 of its 24,000 metered spaces, enabling antsy drivers to be alerted via street signs or cell phones when a spot becomes available. Only one problem -- give 50 anxious motorists the same message that a ...

A fancy new way to pay for parking -- and issue parking tickets -- is being tested in San Francisco. The Photo Violation Meter is a computerized parking meter that accepts not only coins, but credit cards as well. The new meter detects when a vehicle pulls up and pulls away via digital cameras and sensors. If your time runs out before you move your car, it takes a photo and wirelessly transmits ...