Sam Friedman, 28, recalls driving to a movie theater in Santa Monica, Calif., in the summer of 2007 to see Live Free or Die Hard, then spending a fruitless hour and a half looking for a parking space before giving up and going home. Drivers circling U.S. business districts in search of an empty metered space or a cheap garage account for 30 percent of urban traffic congestion, according to an IBM survey. After his movie no-go, Friedman decided to build an app that allows users to outsource the chore. His Santa Monica-based startup, ParkMe, gathers data from Web-connected parking meters and garage ticket machines to display available spaces in real time to car navigation systems, as well as iPhones and iPads running the software. Friedman's app isn't the only one of its kind, but rivals Parking Panda and Park-Whiz focus solely on reserving a garage space online. ParkMe also provides local garage rates and discount offers, and flags the parking location on users' phones.
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机译：28岁的山姆·弗里德曼（Sam Friedman）回忆起2007年夏天开车去加利福尼亚圣莫尼卡的电影院看《 Live Free》或《 Die Hard》，然后花了一个半小时没找到结果的车位，然后放弃了回家。 。根据IBM的一项调查，在美国商业区中盘旋以寻找空的计量空间或廉价的车库的驾驶员占了城市交通拥堵的30％。电影放映后，弗里德曼决定开发一款应用程序，允许用户将琐事外包。他位于圣莫尼卡的初创公司ParkMe从联网的停车收费表和车库售票机收集数据，以实时显示汽车导航系统以及运行该软件的iPhone和iPad的可用空间。弗里德曼（Friedman）的应用程序并不是唯一的一种，但竞争对手Parking Panda和Park-Whiz仅专注于在线预订车库空间。 ParkMe还提供本地车库价格和折扣优惠，并在用户手机上标记停车位置。
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