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how about a a patent for parallel parking

• dredmorbius 14y ago
  You kid. But with driverless cars emerging, I suspect we may well see just that.
  • gaius 14y ago
    The idea of parallel parking cannot be patented. A specific machine for parallel parking can be (and indeed should be, the inventors of a machine to do something that even many humans struggle with, should be well rewarded).
    • ajuc 14y ago
      So if there were people in this satellite steering it, the patent wouldn't apply? And if the satelite was remote controlled from Earth by a living pilot - would the patent apply then?
  • DanEdge 14y ago
    You can already buy a Lexus which parallel parks for you. Don't know which, if any, elements are patented though.
    • dredmorbius 14y ago
      That thought occurred to me moments after I posted.