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The positioning of cars in this Taipei car park - in particular the clustering of vehicles next to stairwells.

Assumptions about: the time of day people entered the car park based on the number of empty spaces; weather conditions at the time of parking - both good or bad weather might induce a driver to park on the roof level or park somewhere else; the density of cars on the other floors based on people choosing to park on the roof level; and the perception of the likelihood of airborne pollutants / bird originated airborne projectiles and the ease/cost/convenience of having a car cleaned

Fast forward a few years: vehicles negociating their way to 'better' parking spaces when they become available - you don't need to remember exactly where you parked your car when you have real time access to its location, and vice versa; the extent to which the notion of car parking becomes moot when cars have 'self-valet' features; car parks charging more for individual spaces clustered closer to the exits - this already exists to some extent - entire car parks charge more/less based on their proximity to, say, airports - the opportunities for segmenting the market becomes that much easier with more granular data; car parks automatically providing cleaning discount vouchers for drivers whose cars are hit by bird originated airborne projectiles. And yeah - the extent to which car cleaning service providers would employ remote drones to launch airborne projectiles to induce customers to their cleaning services.

Writing from Taipei | May 12, 2007 | Permalink