“We’ve been driving around for a quarter of an hour looking for somewhere to park and there’s no way; we can’t find anything”. Hundreds of thousands of people make this sort of complaint on a daily basis in large cities. In fact, most people spend “an average of 20 minutes to find street parking in Europe’s main cities. In an attempt to curb this problem, SEAT has developed the Parkfinder app, which indicates where there is available street parking thanks to data gathered via Barcelona’s iCity platform. Drivers simply enter where they are headed, or once at their location, ask the app where there is available parking. This is a pilot test being carried out in the Les Corts neighbourhood after an agreement was struck with the Barcelona Council, but the more ambitious goal is for this app to perform many other functions.

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