Drivers drop off the vehicle at the entrance to a parking lot or structure and the car finds a spot and parks on its own.
For anyone who has ever grown weary of circling a crowded parking lot trying to find an empty space or reluctantly turned over a vehicle to a valet, Volvo has created technology that allows a car to park all on its own.
This isn’t the same concept as the ones shown by BMW andVW that allow a car owner to exit and standby while the car eases itself into a tight garage at home or public parking spot. But it is similar in that the automatic parking trick is accomplished using a smartphone app. Audi showed a similar concept at the 2013 Consumer Electronics Show in January.
Volvo said that a concept car with the technology can find a vacant space and park by itself, without the driver inside or even there to watch. “The driver just drops the vehicle off at the entrance to the car park and picks it up in the same place later," Thomas Broberg, senior safety advisor for the Volvo Car Group, said in a statement.
And the procedure can be reversed when the driver comes back to retrieve the car -- sort of like having your own invisible valet, except it doesn’t change your seat settings.
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