Future Car Parking

Jan 02, 2009

If you see a book lying on a desk do you align it to the desk's edges? Are you a habitual aligner?

What assumptions can you make about a motorbike parked at an angle to the curb, close to a pedestrian crossing, laden with goods?

As we slip our future perfect self-parking vehicles into cruise control, someone somewhere is imagining a world of 'perfectly' parked cars - perpendicularly aligned to a city's curbs. But to what extent could or should the self-driving/self parking vehicle adopt the nuances of their owners? The cultural stereotypes associated with their marque? Would a self-parking Fiat be deliberately less perpendicular than a BMW?

What happens when cars with different cultural/personal/technical assumptions about how to park try to align with one another? Who or what provides a fixed point of reference in an otherwise relative world?

Related: vehicle positioning in a Taiwanese parking lot and the parking thread.

Location:
 Japan »  Tokyo »  Sangenjaya Keywords:
 autonomous | mobility | motorbike | parking | self