Prototype BMW Navigation System Helps you Find the Nearest Parking Space [with Video]
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Prototype BMW Navigation System Helps you Find the Nearest Parking Space [with Video]



Self-parking cars are nothing new, since companies like VW and Toyota have already been offering such systems on certain models. However most drivers face a more serious problem in modern cities: actually finding a parking space, preferably as near as possible to their destination.

A prototype version of BMW’s ConnectedDrive navigation system that was presented during BMW Group Innovation Days and which has been under development for the past three years, includes a new micro-navigation technology that promises to provide a solution to this problem.

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