Dealers Clean Up; A Parking Spotter; Smashing an F-150 - Boston.com
You know, start with the steps, then clear a path to the driveway, then the driveway, and finally the dreaded heavy stuff to break through to the street. A pair of cars, or even worse, a pair of SUVs, to be cleaned off. You’ve got anywhere from 50 to 500 cars on the lot. And these are new cars, so you have to be careful not to scratch the paint. There’s too much snow and too many cars. Dealers have been looking to make space for new inventory and the specials they’ve got in place for Presidents’ Day, which actually now is a month-long sales event. So, if you’re looking for a parking space, your local dealership probably has a bunch cleared out for customers. Wouldn’t be a bad time to try something with heated seats, a heated steering wheel, and perhaps headlamp washers. Ford’s R&D people are working with Georgia Tech on a couple of systems to make our lives easier. One is finding that elusive parking space for us. the other is to have a valet system to remotely reposition cars. The parking spotter uses systems already in many Ford vehicles to gather information—in this case, an empty parking space—and send it to a prototype system that works with the cloud to alert other vehicles with the same onboard system that a space... Ford notes that in. Source: www.boston.com
