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    Parking Lot Designed for Absent-Minded Drivers

    {CBH Land} SINGAPORE (Reuters) - A Singapore company has a high-tech solution for absent-minded drivers who lose their cars in parking lots.
    Stratech Systems Ltd has developed a parking lot surveillance system that pinpoints the location of a car after drivers key in their license plate number at a kiosk.

    After punching in the number, a map appears on a screen indicating the zone and lot where the car is parked.

    A display panel at the car park's entrance also gives directions to the nearest vacant spot.

    "The system comprises intelligent software bundled with a camera surveillance system, which provides a security aspect as well," a Stratech spokesman told Reuters.

    If someone loiters in the car park, he said, the system can be configured to alert security.

    The price of the system ranges from around S$100 ($60) to S$400 per parking spot, depending on the number of features, Stratech said. To outfit a 300-lot car park, the bill could come to between S$30,000 ($17,420) and S$120,000 ($69,690).

    The company also charges an annual maintenance fee of between 10 and 15 percent of the total cost of the project, the spokesman said.

    Listed on Singapore's stock market, Stratech returned to the black with a S$4.02 million profit in the six months to June 30. It made a loss of S$25.9 million in the previous half-year.

    Its shares were down half a cent at S$0.18 on Thursday morning. The stock has nearly tripled since the start of the year, outperforming the broader Straits Times Index which has gained only 25 percent in the same period.

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    Registered User mireland's Avatar
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    Thats a lot of work to find a car in a parking lot...

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    If you can't remember where you parked your car what makes them think you can remember your license number?

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    Originally posted by ukulele
    If you can't remember where you parked your car what makes them think you can remember your license number?
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    Hey! Sometimes I can't remember what I had for breakfast.

    I did lose my car one time in San Francisco. Unfamiliar with the city and parked the car on the street and went to a nightclub with a buddy. We couldn't find the car and called the police. They found it 3 blocks away from where two drunk sailors were looking for it.
    "Never corner something that's meaner than you are"

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    Nobody wants my license number, so it's an easy one to remember

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    Originally posted by mireland
    Thats a lot of work to find a car in a parking lot...
    Yeah! Haven't they heard of those smiley faces with little cowboy hats that goes on the tip of your antenna ?

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    Originally posted by Billforce

    I did lose my car one time in San Francisco.
    I lost a car in London once & had to call the cops ...........

    Same kinda situation........... Freekin' embarrassing

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    Originally posted by leprechaun_40
    Nobody wants my license number, so it's an easy one to remember
    Hey Lep!
    This was my personal plate in Oregon before I moved south,

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