How to find a car in a large parking lot. What to do if the car was evacuated. How much does it cost to store a car or motorcycle in a special parking lot
At the beginning of the new 2017, the developers of the Moscow Parking application pleased with the update - now with its help you can find your car in the parking lot.
One button and the car is found
Muscovites have long appreciated the convenience of the Moscow Parking app for smartphones. It is easy to pay for any parking using it, even if there is no special terminal nearby.
Now users of this application have the ability to automatically plan a route to their car. To do this, you just need to press the "Geolocation" button, and the application will pave the most convenient walking path to the car and show how long it will take you.
Another innovation is the determination of the nearest paid parking lots in real time, as well as information about parking rates. Very handy, especially when you are in a hurry or in an unfamiliar area.
Let's list all the new features of the Moscow Parking app:
- button "Geolocation";
- search for the nearest paid parking lots;
- the appearance of detailed instructions for working with the application.
Who forgets cars in parking lots?
Losing a car in a parking lot seems like a funny absurdity to many, but such cases do happen. Moreover, some motorists manage to look for their cars for years.
One Englishman could not find his car in a paid parking lot for 6 months. When the police found the car, he was incredibly happy. But the joy was immediately replaced by frustration when the owner found out that he owed parking a huge amount of 5 thousand pounds - that's almost 366 thousand rubles.
In Germany, a man was looking for his vehicle even longer - for 2 years. It turned out that the car was parked practically next to his house. The most interesting thing is that the car was found safe and sound, nothing was even missing from it.
Russia is no exception, our cars are also forgotten in parking lots. So recently a Petersburger forgot where he left his car. However, he could not even remember the name of the city! The car has not yet been found, but the police have already begun work.
As you can see, forgetful citizens are quite common, so the new features of the application will be very useful!
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Many car enthusiasts have probably already met (faced) such a situation more than once, when, after leaving the car in the parking lot near some large shopping center, upon returning back from the shopping center to the parking lot, you could not immediately find or find your car in the parking lot. Most car parks, and especially in Russia, are poorly equipped with signs and various information messages that would help the owner of the car easily remember the place of parking (parking) of the car and then easily find his parked car. To help in such cases the company "SurfStudio" has developed a special application Park Me Right for smartphones running Android, which recently appeared for free download on Google Play.
Many will find it strange that you can forget the place where the car is. But unfortunately there are a lot of such cases. Not everyone has a good memory. And some parking spaces near shopping centers are designed and installed in such a way that if you don't know how to navigate well in space or on the terrain, then really, then you can remember for a long time where the car was left. In our country, there have been cases when car owners were looking for their car almost all day. Imagine what the owners of such cars have gone through, who could not find their car for so long.
So that you (car owners) do not worry, do not strain your mind and do not remember where you left your car, this Park Me Right application installed on a smartphone (phone) will easily help each of the owners to quickly find their car. A very useful device (application) will also help any car owner if he leaves his car for a long time at the airport or railway station in a large parking lot (due to his long absence), even when the car owner has a good memory, for such a long time of absence he can simply forget the exact location of your car in the parking lot.
This Park Me Right app is very easy to use. After you have parked in the parking lot, you need to launch the installed program on your phone (sartphone) and fix the exact location of the car on the ground, thereby pressing the corresponding button in the program. The application will bind itself using a GPS signal from a satellite and determine the exact coordinates of the location of your "iron horse".
Upon returning from the mall to the car park or from any other trip, etc. etc., you just need to run the application Park Me Right and press the corresponding button so that the program will show on the map the exact location in the parking lot of your car, paving the shortest way for you to it, thus indicating it on the screen of your phone (smartphone). The program also has a built-in compass, it is needed so that you can get to your car faster and in the shortest way.
Including this application also has augmented reality function, when the phone's camera is used and a live image is displayed directly on the smartphone screen, you can see the pointers that the program imposesPark Me Right on a live video image, which helps you in the shortest way and in a short time to approach (get) to your car in a huge car park.
With the help of this application, you will never lose your car in the parking lot and never forget where you left it.
This application is free and available to everyone for free download on Google Play.
Yandex. Parking
Yandex.Parking shows on the map where there are parking spaces and helps to build a convenient route to the nearest one. At the same time, the application allows you to pay for parking in several ways: bank card, from a phone account and using the Yandex.Money service. The app will also be able to remind you that the paid parking time is coming to an end.
This app has appeared in the App Store quite recently, and it is strikingly different from other parking services. Unlike competitors, ParkApp not only finds the nearest free parking lots (there are more than 9000 of them in the application database), but also allows you to know in advance which user is going to free up a parking space. This became possible thanks to a "smart" algorithm that learns about the driver's intention to leave the parking lot and informs other users nearby. The application also warns of approaching tow trucks, and in any unforeseen situation allows you to call roadside assistance.
Parking Moscow
The application contains a database of parking lots at shopping centers, railway stations and airports, as well as paid and free parking lots in Moscow. In total, the service knows about 600 parking lots throughout the city. The application helps to plan a route to the nearest free parking lot, taking into account the schedule of its work (the map shows parking lots that are open at the time of contact). Also, using this service, the user can pay for his stay in the parking space
Parkopedia
Like its counterparts, Parkopedia uses a database of parking spaces in its work and makes it possible to build a route to any of them. The difference between this service and its competitors is its “geography”. The fact is that the application works all over the world and, according to the assurances of the developers, will help you find parking spaces even in exotic countries.
Admit it, have you ever had such a thing that after you park your car in a large parking lot, when you come back, you look for it for a long time? You are not alone. In fact, quite a few people have difficulty finding their car in an unfamiliar parking lot. What can we say about passengers who do not remember very well what the desired car looks like. If this situation is familiar to you, then below I will give recommendations designed to help.
My thoughts are constantly occupied with something that has nothing to do with the car, I do not have this convenient remote device that makes the car give a funny signal indicating its location, I am the owner of one of the most popular models in black or gray. In this case, finding your car in the parking lot can turn into real torment.
Remove the roller
It is a video, not a photograph. The photo will also help determine where the car is parked, but the video will give more details and will allow you to more accurately determine the location. In a crowded parking lot or curb, people rarely notice details.
But you can easily find the way back to your vehicle if you record the entire journey from the car door to the door of the supermarket or office building with your smartphone camera. It's great if your smartphone has a program that allows you to play videos in reverse order. This method provides an excellent visual cue for those people whose attention is distracted by something.
Check the box on the map
In underground car parks, GPS won't work as well as you'd like, but outdoors it will. The marker of your current location on Google Maps will show you where you left your car with a fairly high accuracy. If you return to it in the dark, the map will even help you find the best route in an unfamiliar place.
I am sure that you yourself will figure out how to use your smartphone or tablet as such a navigation device, so I will not give detailed instructions. I will only note that in order to save the current position, it is not necessary to load Maps. You can, for example, send a message from Viber with the location function activated.
Make your car stand out
If you use a car of one of the common models, it can take a long time to find it in a full parking lot. Is it possible to somehow change this? Make your car more visible and different from others. I am not suggesting that something terrible should be fixed on its roof, which could spoil the whole aesthetics of a modern auto-prototype. A small cloth ribbon is good for these purposes (unless, of course, you decide to use the ribbon of the Order of Victory, which in May days flaunts on the antenna of every second car).
Choose a rag tape with a bright color. If you don't want to go to a fabric store, you can cut it off from an unwanted T-shirt. The best place to attach this tape is at the antenna. If you don't have an antenna or you don't want the tape to constantly flutter behind your car, attach the tape under the wipers whenever you leave your car in an unfamiliar parking lot.
Park near the exit
Most people prefer to park as close to the entrance of a supermarket or office as possible. This is due to the fact that they are too lazy to walk the extra several tens of meters. If you park near the exit from the parking lot, you will be forced to take a short walk, but save time on entering and leaving. A short walk won't hurt. It is a great way to warm up after driving. And most importantly, finding your car in this place will be much easier. Just stand near the exit and look around.
If you park on the street, then choose some prominent place. This can be, for example, a site near the intersection of two streets or opposite a building that does not look like the surrounding ones. You may need to leave the car a little off the beaten track, but you still remember well how to look for it. Of course, you can play it safe by marking this site on the map.
Let smart technology watch your car
If you want to always find your car in the parking lot, without making any effort for this, then entrust this job to your smartphone (it is assumed that you do not forget it in the cabin). Relying on the power of Bluetooth, you can set a special tag that will display the location of the car in one click on the screen.
Use a small Bluetooth flash drive and Find My Car Smarter for iPhone. This link ensures that the coordinates of the car will be transmitted to your smartphone until the moment you leave it. In this case, you do not have to do anything yourself. If you cannot find the car when you return, run the program on your iPhone and it will show you the right place.
Android mobile users can use the Park Me Right app. Although it does not automatically remember the location, create a note with GPS coordinates on your smartphone while parking. The program is free, and if you remember to use it, you will never lose your car in an unfamiliar city.
In this way, modern technologies help even the most absent-minded person find a car, be he a driver or a passenger. Still, I recommend that you develop your own memory and mindfulness. If every time you get out of the car, you will remind yourself that you will have to look for it later, then remember a few signs that make it easier to find. Gradually, it will become a habit, useful not only for returning to your vehicle.