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It's definitely a "find your car in the giant lot" button if you ask me
by 98codes 6y ago
It's definitely a "find your car in the giant lot" button if you ask me
- ghaff 6y agoI've actually wondered. Is there a super-easy "here's where I've parked my card app"? As in push a couple of buttons after you park your car and you're set? Super low friction. Not sure I've seen it.
- gnicholas 6y agoIf you have an iPhone and connect it to your car via Bluetooth (even just for music/calls — doesn't require CarPlay), then the Maps app will show "parked car" where you last parked it. Pretty slick!
- ghaff 6y agoMy car way predates Bluetooth or at least having Bluetooth in cars :-)
- netsharc 6y agoDoes this work in underground car parks with no GPS line of sight?
- gnicholas 6y agoGood question. I would imagine it records the last known GPS location before you disconnected from Bluetooth. But it would be great if it did something smarter, like using accelerometer data to dead reckon the location. It could even try to use data from both your incoming trip to the underground parking spot and your exit from the parking spot to wherever you’re going. Probably too optimistic to think this is what’s happening through.
- addandsubtract 6y agoGoogle maps does this. Either after you complete a trip or if you tap on your current location marker. It's only as accurate as your GPS and won't help you in a park house, but pretty frictionless if you're already using Google maps to navigate.
- ghaff 6y agoAh. Thanks. Not sure when they added the "Set as parking location." Exactly what I was looking for.
- ghaff 6y agoYou can also use the unlock in my experience. But, yeah, searching for a car is my use case generally.