Ford's big CES keynote is going on right now, and among the many future-facing innovations the company is touting is something that could be really useful to those who live in a big city. It's called Parking Spotter, and it basically users the driver assist sensors found in Ford's vehicles to gather data on open parking spots as a car drives around the city — that data is uploaded to the cloud and shared with other users so that they use it to find a spot to put their own car. It'll basically leverage data from drivers, even if they specifically aren't looking for a parking spot, so that when you're in need you'll have crowdsourced info to pull from rather than drive around aimlessly searching for 20 minutes. Sounds like an improvement to me.
Ford's Parking Spotter is a crowdsourced database to help you find a place for your car
Ford's Parking Spotter is a crowdsourced database to help you find a place for your car
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