I just got this great idea, I am a writer not a marketer, so go ahead and run with it if you like. If I ever see it being used and I see no reason why this would not become popular some day, I will tell everyone that I had the idea first. The GPS device is here to stay and besides the stand alone devices like the Garmin, TomTom, and Magellan, people also use GPS to navigate from their smart phones. I thought that since these devices are able to locate your car, that they should also be able to locate other cars.
How great would it be, if after you pull into a parking lot that your GPS can point out all the empty parking spaces for you? Think about all the time this might save you from going down that aisle where there are no empty spaces and instead allowing you to pick a choice spot. This application might also activate a camera in your vehicle that keeps track of parking lot activity near your spot, which would be handy in case someone smashes a carriage into you, or scrapes your bumper or worse and then takes off.
I heard an Indian company in Bengaluru did that.. Via app but not through GPS.. Similar experiments were done in France and Britain..
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Does this mean that I can’t tell people that this was my idea?
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No your idea is different if I understand correctly you want your GPS to correlate and tell you the parking space not through an app but directly. It can be done but I think only on a 5G level.
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I guess my idea is ahead of our current level of technology, but I am pretty sure we will have this some day.
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Maybe in the next 5 years if they are serious about self driving cars..
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Ooooh! Sounds great, I like it! As a career passenger, this would be helpful for me as well. I no longer want to be the spot look-out. For some reason, the driver, in my experiences, always get so snippy when you tell them about a spot too late. I mean, you tell me to look, so I look. I can’t help it if I see it just as you are passing it. Sometimes the spot is a bit obscured by larger vehicles and besides, I’m not familiar with your driving mind; how am I supposed to know your specific parking preference as per each destination? Sorry, I’ve digressed. Great post.
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Love your comment! I understand what you are saying, those drivers with their mirrors and their blinkers it seems that all they ever are able to do is complain. The career passenger that person who usually rides shotgun knows that this exalted position comes with some extra responsibilities which includes telling the driver which way to go every now and then. Who needs that snippy attitude of someone blaming you for missing a spot as it is not like you are actually doing the driving and anyway you can always find another driver to cart you around.
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Yeah!✊ But, wait…I don’t 😔 I need more driving friends😩 I guess I’ll make some penpals outside of the city…🤔
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No matter how far away you move from the city, eventually someone is going to install a parking lot.
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True, true. Either I change careers or learn to read minds.
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I imagine that taking the bus is not going to be an option.
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No. Never. I’ve grown accustomed to the finer transports of life.
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Yea, I am not a bus guy either. Well ever since my senior trip in high school, but that is another story.
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Yeah! Another story for you to share with us, right? Haha. Just kidding.
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I enjoy all of your kidding.
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I aim to please!
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Aren’t you peachy.
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but then everyone would be racing for that same spot, and end up crashing or with “road” rage or in this case “parking” rage – saying you stole my spot! We kind of already have that happening in parking structures in Orange county.
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I never said that I had all the details worked out, I am just the idea man so don’t shoot the messenger. I have seen some pretty crazy stuff go on in parking lots and I am not sure if this device would make it better or worse and perhaps this application could feature some type of coin flip in these instances, which would decide who gets the spot and who has to move on. Is Orange County in CA or FL?
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Both! 🙂 ha! You tricky trickster!
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I am not a stalker, but I reside in Lake County which is right next to Orange.
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HA! You must be Florida! I’m in CA.
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yep
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Don’t know about that coin flip option. Hopefully, the app will do the flip and not leave it up to the drivers. I see a chalk outline and hear Miranda Rights happening.
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Yes this could end up being a real fiasco and that is why I said in the beginning that anyone who wants to market this can run with it if they like.
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Haha!
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Well, as soon as the parking space has been taken, the app will indicate it. The image of a car parked in that space will appear. How? Beats the heck out of me.
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Programming makes it happen, it is all in the code. I have never designed a phone app yet, but I have programmed many complicated machines and processes. Most people have no clue of what is going on behind the curtain.
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“Ignore that man behind the curtain!”
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That is a horse of a different color.
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“I’m not afraid of anything – except a lighted match.”
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ha, ha, ha, you’d better not get that witch mad at me and you
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ha, ha, ha, you’d better not get that witch mad at me and you
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Yes, but they would still be racing in the parking structure to the same spot to fill it simultaneously. One will get it, the other one – and could possibly be a crash trying to occupy spot first
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Parking lot accidents occur in parking lots every day, my car got dented a few weeks back when I was in Wal-Mart. The lady was nice enough to leave a note on my windshield.
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Parking lot accidents occur in parking lots every day, my car got dented a few weeks back when I was in Wal-Mart. The lady was nice enough to leave a note on my windshield.
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Understood. Care to put on the reflector vest and white gloves?
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I am not a crossing guard and I am not going to stand in a parking lot and settle disputes. I will just download a new program.
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hell no
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That crossing guard reference was for Sandi, not you Newepicauthor.
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My bad. Call ne Jim.
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Ok, Jim it is!
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Why is it that you only comment on this post as I usually write about 3 posts a day?
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I mostly go by what’s in my reader feed. As of late, I have been having internet issues. I’ll do better, I swear!
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Sight or otherwise called Journey helped me with so many issues, I am still new at this whole blogging thing. I am a writer and I love it here because I am challenged every day. I joined here to get some publicity for my new book.
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Oops! Just realized I wasn’t following you. Sorry, Jim. Thanks for shaming me.
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I started folling you from the first post I read by you and I only follow about 10 people.
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I’ll have your gold medal ready for you tomorrow. Cut me some potato, Jim! I might have been on here past my bedtime like I am now, so I’ve got exhaustion as my excuse.
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Good night I also need to crash.
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Good night I also need to crash.
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Night
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I am working on something new and it is called No Fucking Way I Shit You Not. Do you think that will be too vulgar?
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What?!!! Too vulgar? I don’t understand that language. Have you not read my earlier posts? My blog used to be called “Oh,Shit! What Now?!” I have a fiend who days, “I shite you not!” Do my ears are numb to the sting.
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*Friend, “shite” is not autocorrect. “So my ears…” (I’m on my phone again)
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Did you mean politically correct?
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No. I was correcting the autocorrect which happened in my previous comment.
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That sounds like a good title for a post, ‘My Autocorrect Needs Correcting’.
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It sure does! Write one.
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OK thanks for your inspiration. By the way I finished that No Fucking Way I Shit You Not post today.
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YAY! I’LL pop over and read it.
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Should we meet in the parking lot?
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Now, that sounds creepy! I am literally in a parking lot right now! Back away Mr.! I know karate!
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Get out of that creepy parking lot and pop right over. How cool is that, being all to the many and knowing karate, however I once did karaoke.
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😂😂😂😂 I’ve never done karaoke. I would love to try at least once.
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I just added that to your bucket list.
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I have one?
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Is visiting a nudist colony on it, or perhaps you have already done that. I put that on mine, but I have not had the guts yet.
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That doesn’t appeal to me. If I were to have a bucket list, it would have mostly food experiences on it.
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OK thanks for your inspiration. By the way I finished that No Fucking Way I Shit You Not post today.
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I just found you the other day, so I have not read that many of your posts yet. Is that Shakespeare, ‘Do my ears are numb to the sting.’
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More autocorrect error. But calling it Shakespeare sounds much better. Let’s go with that.
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I am down with Shakespeare.
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Cool beans! Then Shakespeare it is!
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Another great title for a post, you are filling my head with ideas, maybe you are my muse.
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Jim, I am all to the many. Said regally or as wise guru with beard. You choose.
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My path is clear now, I told the one who knows more and the one who can reveal the all to so many. Guru please tell me if your beard is real.
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Yes,brother. The beard is real and the source of all my greatness👳
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I am working on something new and it is called No Fucking Way I Shit You Not. Do you think that will be too vulgar?
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