Park Your Car With An iPhone App

Here you go, now you will not find any difficulties in parking your car because researchers at the Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, have developed a new app that lets your iPhone tell your car to park without you in it and the best thing about the Virtual Valet Parking App is that it will be affordable.

Experts are saying that users can pull up to the kerb, push a button on their smartphone and the car takes care of everything else. Then can also tell it to come back whenever they are done.

To find its own spot, the system uses a sensor suite similar to ones found in many luxury cars. This includes a motion sensor that scans for moving cars and pedestrians, and a forward-facing laser rangefinder normally found in adaptive cruise control to determine the distance of objects in front of the car.

Information from these sensors is then fed to an onboard computer to plot the vehicle’s course. The user can watch the whole process from their phone. In experiments, the vehicle was able to navigate through a crowded parking structure, find an empty spot, and park all on its own.

This App is going to be launched in December 2012 in Berlin, Germany.