Finding a parked car: The best tips for drivers
Created: 02/21/2022, 07:47
By: Julia Cuprakova
Whether in the parking lot in front of the Lidl or after shopping at Kaufland, drivers keep forgetting where they parked.
There's a simple cell phone trick.
If you park your car in one of the large parking lots in front of discounters and large grocery stores such as Lidl* or Kaufland*, you should not only make sure that the parking disc in the vehicle is set correctly*, as
echo24.de
* has already reported, but also where he parked the car.
But it becomes even more problematic in a foreign city with many small side streets.
But there is a simple cell phone trick.
Finding a parked car: Useful apps for drivers
There are drivers who ask themselves the question "Where is my car?" almost every day - because they keep forgetting where they parked it.
There are now numerous apps in the iOS App Store or Google Play that can help.
Popular apps are:
Apple Maps, Find My Car - GPS Auto Parking Location Tracker, Find My Car - GPS Navigation, Google Maps, iParking - Find my car, etc. (
source: bussgeldkatalog.de
)
The parked car can be easily found again, especially with the latest version of the Google Maps app (iOS and Android) on the mobile phone.
What do drivers have to do about it?
Car away on the Kaufland parking lot?
Google Maps helps drivers everywhere
After a long search for a parking space, we were finally able to park the car.
To be sure to find it again, you have to display your own location on Google Maps.
Google shows the location as a blue dot on the map.
If you now tap on the blue dot, a menu opens at the bottom of the screen.
In this menu you can set your own location as a parking lot.
This is stored by Google Maps for 24 hours, as
reported by
chip.de.
If you now want to find the parking lot again, simply tap on the search bar in Google Maps and select the option "Parking" and then "Route".
The app now leads back to the saved parking space and thus to the car.
Alternatively, you can also use the Google Assistant to save and find the parking space.
This function is particularly useful for drivers who have parked their car in a parking garage - location access does not have to be activated for this.
Drivers can also use Google Assistant in the parking garage
By the way, it's even faster with voice commands in Google Assistant or with Siri.
For example, simply say: "I parked on level two".
As soon as Google Assistant should then show the way back to the car and to the parking lot, activate the Assistant again: "Where is my car?" or "Where did I park?".
The Google Assistant reproduces the spoken information.
By the way: did you know that there is a hidden bottle opener for crown caps* in every car?
In a separate article,
echo24.de
* reveals exactly where these are located.
A few tips have been summarized here on the subject of driving, as well as curious rules and regulations in road traffic*.
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