In the not too distant future you’ll be able to find parking with your cell phone. Streetline networks, a tech firm, is working with the city of San Francisco to install sensors that will alert drivers when parking spots become available. The project will cost a whopping 95 million dollars and it will just cover 25% of the city’s parking spaces. Part of the purpose behind this project is to relieve traffic congestion by eliminating the need for cars to continuously circle looking for parking. Drivers can find out about available spaces via their smartphones and street signs, and eventually they’ll be able to pay for parking spaces via their phones as well. While we’re not sure we’d want our city budget spent on something like this, the concept does sound very helpful. However we’re pretty sure this system will never show up in New York because here the city wants you to park in an illegal spot just so that you can pile up on the ticket violations. Really, they do. (Source: Maxium PC Magazine, October ‘08)