Our mountain resort communities swell with visitors during the peak winter and summer seasons and are plagued by auto congestion and the lack of parking.
The parking lot at the auto auction a few miles west of Indianapolis looks like a car dealer's nightmare: 150 acres of blacktop packed with undistinguished used vehicles.
But the 30-day-free-parking policy was largely forgotten after auto makers, saying they couldn't turn a profit on such models, canceled production and repossessed many of the cars.
Instead of stopping, Erzinger drove away and stopped in a Pizza Hut parking lot where he called the Mercedes auto assistance service to report damage to his car but did not ask for police, court documents say.
Indeed, NRG's CEO David Crane recalls the first time he visited Nest at its Palo Alto headquarters, where the parking lot is ringed with high-speed auto charging ports.
Mascarenas says such an auto-based network could also help future motorists locate and reserve parking spaces in garages and pay tolls remotely, among other functions.