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Brits Spend 35 Million Hours a Year Looking For Their Parked Cars

There are definitely more fun ways to waste time: a new survey commissioned by Nissan GB reveals that, on average, British drivers spend 35 million hours a year looking for their parked cars. This, despite having the technological means to locate them almost instantly.
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The survey was conducted via OnePoll, on 2,000 drivers, The Independent notes. One third of respondents regularly lose their car, with an average of one incident of this kind a month. One in 20 drivers said this happens weekly.

And yes, female drivers tend to be more prone to this kind of mishap than their male counterparts: 72 percent, as compared to 58 percent. On the other hand, women take less time to find the lost vehicle than men: an average of 8.8 minutes, as compared to 11.9 minutes in male drivers. Respondents have also mentioned instances where they spent more than 30 minutes to locate the car, but these count as exceptions.

As far as the most common places to “lose” a car, these include multi-story car parks, shopping center and supermarket car parks, airports, town and city streets, and concert venues. Each year, there are over 133 million instances of “lost cars” in the UK, based on the findings of the poll.

“The research highlights how common it is to forget where you parked, but modern in-car connectivity and smartphone apps let drivers use simple technology to mitigate against this sort of motoring pitfall,
” Arun Prasad, a spokesman for Nissan GB, says.

But here’s the gist: despite having the technological means to prevent this from happening, only a fraction of drivers use them to log and locate their lost vehicle. Of all the respondents, only 9 percent admitted to using in-car and smartphone technology to log the car.

Prasad notes that Nissan offers the Nissan Intelligent Mobility technology, which is “changing the way we interact with our vehicles” and “helping drivers easily locate their car.” The Door to Door Navigation includes the “Find My Car” function, which was designed specifically for this purpose.
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About the author: Elena Gorgan
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Elena has been writing for a living since 2006 and, as a journalist, she has put her double major in English and Spanish to good use. She covers automotive and mobility topics like cars and bicycles, and she always knows the shows worth watching on Netflix and friends.
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