Green ideas cure the parking blues
As the car transforms into a cleaner machine, parking also evolves
Cars are useful, sometimes cool, but also very problematic. The automobile has been a transformative piece of technology. Since the first mass production models emerged in the early 20th Century, the car and truck have reshaped the world. They became the dominant mode of urban and inter-urban transport, driving economic growth and enabling individuals to experience previously undreamed of levels of personal mobility. But, at the same time, automobiles brought injury and death due to speeding, polluted the air, undermined public transport and smothered the landscape with tarmac and concrete. The carscape is one of gridlocked highways, vast parking lots and kerbsides blocked by cortege-like lines of stationary cars.
