Perhaps Disney could use this car-finder too?

[wdwhoneymooner]

Parking lot designed for absent-minded drivers
11/20/2003

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - A Singapore company has a high-tech solution for absent-minded drivers who lose their cars in parking lots.

Stratech Systems Ltd has developed a parking lot surveillance system that pinpoints the location of a car after drivers key in their license plate number at a kiosk.

After punching in the number, a map appears on a screen indicating the zone and lot where the car is parked.

A display panel at the car park's entrance also gives directions to the nearest vacant spot.

If someone loiters in the car park, the system can alert security, a Stratech spokesman told Reuters.

The price of the system starts at about $60 per parking spot, depending on the features, Stratech said. To outfit a 300-lot car park, the bill could run to $69,690.

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I know I've had my car "moved" while I was at the Parks.

 

[tigsmom]

Andy, the link doesn't work. :wave:

 

[wdwhoneymooner]

Originally posted by tigsmom
Andy, the link doesn't work. :wave:

:brick: :brick:

I just copied & pasted the entire article instead.

 

[tigsmom]

Cool. Better than my Tigger antena topper. :lol:

 

[WDWFREAK53]

Problems I see...

People don't know how to use FastPass...let alone this...and the amount of people filing in and out would really slow things down.

Next...there are a TON of rental cars...now I ask you...do you know the license plate number of the last rental car you had? :animwink:

 

[mkt]

Originally posted by WDWFREAK53
Next...there are a TON of rental cars...now I ask you...do you know the license plate number of the last rental car you had? :animwink:

yeah.. it's on the keychain

 

[crazygirley]

I don't see it ever happening. Can you imagine it though? If they got it, eventually they would probably need to put up a FastPass on it...the Find Your License Plate Kiosk Fastpass...wow!

 

[tenchu]

Originally posted by WDWFREAK53
Problems I see...

People don't know how to use FastPass...let alone this...and the amount of people filing in and out would really slow things down.

Next...there are a TON of rental cars...now I ask you...do you know the license plate number of the last rental car you had? :animwink:

But not everyone would have to use this system.

Only the fools who don't write their car parking lot down!

:lol:

 

[Maria]

We lost our car in DL´s parking lot a long time ago.... not fun looking for it at midnight...
Epcot´s cast parking lot was always a delight for me whenever I had a car... I could never remember where I had parked it and in other ocassions, I even forgot I had driven to work and almost took the shuttle back home! :lol: