Cars Ford learn how to create a map of available Parking spaces

23 March 2018

A Collaborative Parking system will save a lot of time

Each town motorist faced with the challenge of finding a vacant Parking space. Especially sharply it costs in the Central areas of large cities where you can literally endlessly driving in circles in hope to get at least somewhere. According to the company Ford, every year, motorists spend an average of one day for that lesson. But engineers are "Blue oval" getting to close if not to solve this problem, reduce its "symptoms."

The Parking problem has two aspects. First, the availability may not be at all. Secondly, the free space can still somewhere to be, but they still need to find. With the latter and help to fight the system with the working title Collaborative Parking ("Joint Parking"). It will use the standard Parking sensors to know which places are empty. In the future machines will be able to exchange such information, which will allow you to make a single map of the vacant Parking lots.

Work Collaborative Parking was tested not only on closed polygons, but in the small British town of Milton Keynes.

"We understand how much time is wasted and nerves is spent on finding Parking spaces in cities and towns. Using the technologies we develop are Collaborative Parking we saw an opportunity to return this time back to drivers, helping them enjoy happier, healthier and more efficient travel", — shared the head of the center of Ford Automated Driving Europe Christian Ress (Christian Ress).

Representatives of Ford were not told about when a promising development, you can use ordinary motorists. Meanwhile, the technology Collaborative Parking will be useful not only to drivers but also unmanned machines, so it makes sense even on the background of the imminent advent of autopilots.