Parking
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It can be hard work, using a spotter and/or your vehicle's mirrors to move a trailer into a tight space such as a parking spot or garage. The Trailer Valet RVR, however, is intended to make the job easier. Essentially, it's a remote-control trailer-parking tank.
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Autonomous cars could prove to be splendid news for parking, according to new research from the University of Toronto. Because self-driving cars can park themselves, you can cram many more cars in. But according to the researchers, if autonomous cars work together, even more space can be saved…
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Bikes are everywhere in the Netherlands, which can make finding somewhere to park a problem. Cyclists in Utrecht started using a parking garage under the train station last week, ahead of an August 21 official opening. When complete, it will be the world's largest parking facility for bikes.
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Autonomous vehicles promise to makes things a whole lot more convenient, and that may extend to the tedious task of finding a parking spot. Working towards such a future, Daimler and Bosch, have demonstrated an autonomous valet service that can be initiated by smartphone.
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Sometimes, instead of trying to defeat a cyclist's high-security lock, bicycle thieves will actually saw through the rack to which a bike is locked. It's been happening in Portland, Oregon, so the city is installing a new type of bike-parking rack that just says No to saws.
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Audi has turned to autonomous parking robots developed by Ray, and Dokk1 is a fully automated car park in Denmark. Now, Stanley Robotics' automated valet is being put into service at Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris to provide people-free parking.
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It's all too easy to forget to put an automatic transmission car in "park," but the consequences of a parked car rolling away can be very serious. Ford has developed "Return to Park" functionality, which detects when a driver is exiting a vehicle and automatically selects the P mode.
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Cars can now virtually park themselves. Having spent time in several of today’s semi-automated self-parking cars, it’s become clear that the idea is becoming mainstream, but the technology behind it is not commonly understood. Here’s a rundown on how it works.
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There are already products that let cyclists save floor space by parking their bicycles vertically against the wall. Almost all of those systems, however, require users to lift their bikes up. Parkis makes things easier, by doing the lifting for the rider.
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Wheel boots are heavy and cumbersome to carry, plus the people who put them on typically have to kneel dangerously close to passing traffic. That's why New York-based Ideas That Stick developed the windshield-blocking Barnacle.
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Parking sensors and reversing cameras are generally the preserve of new cars, but FenSens is aiming to change that with its new license plate frame, which wirelessly connects to your smartphone and gives you parking sensors regardless of how old your ride is.
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For the 2016 model year, Ford has given the Explorer a mid-cycle refresh, making some changes to the exterior, some interior upgrades, and adding safety features. The refresh also sees the addition of a Platinum trim level at the top of the lineup, which spent a week behind the wheel of.
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