Nov 27, 2015 7:00 AM

Gallery: Audi Will Unleash Self-Parking Cars in a Bid to Fix Urban Gridlock

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Audi's planning to introduce self-parking cars outside Boston in 2018.
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The point is to reduce congestion caused by cars endlessly circling the block looking for a free spot.

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Audi first demonstrated the necessary technology at CES several years ago.
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Garages made exclusively for autonomous would use space much more efficiently.

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You need just four inches of space between mirrors on neighboring cars, since they will park themselves with machine-like precision (because they’re machines).
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Phase two of the Assembly Row project is slated for 2020, when the aim would be to have a full fleet of autonomously parking Audi cars in circulation around the area.

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By 2030, Audi hopes to make the garage available to the broader market of self-driving cars that will likely hit the market by that time.

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Nena Farrell

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Fernanda González

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