Week 12 Blog 23: Dude, Where's My Car?

Apple has recently taken interest in automotive-applications, filing a patent application about an iPhone with the capability of locating your parked car, wherever it may be. However, this technology is more than just an app for people who forget where they parked their cars at a shopping mall. Taking a closer look at this patent, this function requires a portable computing device, like an iPhone, and a server system within that parking structure in order to locate a vehicle. Most likely using Bluetooth wireless technology, in order to make this work it seems like the owners of parking structures will also have to implement this system.

Honestly, I always wondered why such technology has not occurred to app developers yet. I'm not sure if such technology exists already, but since some people can track where other people's phones are, tracking a car shouldn't be much harder. At least Apple is taking its approach to make it their own, and I definitely don't think this kind of technology will be limited to just cars. Pretty soon everything in our lives will be able to be controlled at the palm of our hands.

http://www.patentlyapple.com/patently-apple/2013/04/apple-reveals-an-advanced-indoor-mobile-location-application-for-finding-a-vehicle-in-a-parking-structure.html