Park your car with your smartphone

As well as cars that drive themselves, the Bosch technical day gave an insight into a world where cars park themselves. Engineers showed off a future development of Park Assist where the car does everything for you. Today this system only takes over the steering, but in future it could do everything. All you do is drive past a bay while the car scans it. Once it accepts it can get in it, the car tells you go into neutral, then push and hold a dashboard button. The car does everything else. What’s more freaky is that the car button doesn’t have to be in the car, so you can actually get out, open an app on your smartphone and then push and hold a button on there. Its pushing the Vienna Convention to the limit – it says someone must always be in control of a car. It doesn’t say they actually have to be in it.