Find your parked car with Google Maps

[redytrk]

Forget where you parked your car at the Super Bowl ? Google Maps Can Help.
With Google Maps, which comes preinstalled on Android smart phones and iPhones. Here's how: After parking your car, open Maps to see your location (make sure GPS is enabled on the phone). The location will be marked by a blue marker. Tap the marker to open a box showing the location's address. Tap the box for a window with more information about the location. At the top right, you'll see a star. Tap that to save the location on the map. After the event, when you're tired and buzzed and just want to get home, Maps will let you know where you are, and the star will tell you where your car is.

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[asjssl]

Great another tool for the drunks ....but being the responsible person you are .....you are only helping your sober driver find the car I would hope??...

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[redytrk]

Great another tool for the drunks ....but being the responsible person you are .....you are only helping your sober driver find the car I would hope??...

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Good point. But there is hope on the horizon. A congressman has introduced a bill to require a breathalyser lock system to be installed in all card.

 

[asjssl]

Good point. But there is hope on the horizon. A congressman has introduced a bill to require a breathalyser lock system to be installed in all card.

You got to be joking...


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[Turtle]

Drunks and other DUI habituals routinely get sentenced with a Breathalyzer for their car. In 2009 Toyota (in cohorts with Hino Motors) developed a hand-held model that they tested. The nifty thing about the Toyota model, no thanks to Hino, I'm sure, is there is a Super Duper Trucker Model that has a minicam that can photograph the user's face and send the information to a truck dispatcher.

"The system thus prevents drivers from operating vehicles in an inebriated state, while follow-up instructions given by fleet administrators aim to further reduce the possibility of alcohol-related traffic accidents."

After the Breathalyzer fails you and won't start the truck, I wonder what those "follow-up instructions" from fleet managers might be.