6 ms·

Google map that can show me parking? I'm driving to a coffee place, great, but then it's 10min turning around the place looking for parking. Ideally it should

• mappum 13y ago
  Google could implement this very effectively when they have a couple self-driving cars going around each city scanning for empty parking spots. Before then, you might have to do something hacky like user-submitted data.
• Jemaclus 13y ago
  I was thinking the other day about this. They have cars that can park themselves already. I think Audi has been advertising them. They obviously use some sort of sensor to detect empty parking spaces. What would be brilliant is if they did two things: 1) Used GPS coordinates to figure out if you are in a high-demand area for parking and, if so: 2) Passively scan for parking spots as you drive by, then upload them to the cloud. You don't actually have to be looking for a parking spot -- but your driving by an empty one could help someone else. A more YC-focused idea is to design a small device that does exactly that for any car and is as simple as dropping something onto your antenna or sticking it on a passenger-side window.
• chiptuned 13y ago
  There are some apps out there that are collecting parking data for cities: http://parkopedia.com http://parkopedia.com http://www.parkme.com http://www.parkme.com http://www.bestparking.com http://www.bestparking.com Would be nice for Google Maps to acquire/build their own parking data and integrate it as an overlay. As for the others discussing dynamic spot availability, I say worry about nailing the static info first: street parking rules, parking lot locations, rates, etc..