--- title: Google Can Help Remember Where You Parked Your Car With Android App description: How Google can help you remember where you parked your car canonical: https://time.com/84582/google-can-now-help-you-remember-where-you-parked-your-car/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-05-01T18:24:56.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:09:19.350Z og:title: Google can help you remember where you parked your car og:description: How Google can help you remember where you parked your car og:url: https://time.com/84582/google-can-now-help-you-remember-where-you-parked-your-car/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc29d0cbc13558a52/69868d6936176024e990bc90/478942551.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: 478942551 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Google can help you remember where you parked your car twitter:description: How Google can help you remember where you parked your car twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc29d0cbc13558a52/69868d6936176024e990bc90/478942551.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Google Can Now Help You Remember Where You Parked Your Car by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman May 1, 2014 6:24 PM UTC  Sky's the Limit Sky's the LimitGetty Images by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman May 1, 2014 6:24 PM UTC You know that terrible feeling you get in the pit of your stomach when, after stepping out of a mall or stadium, you realize you have _no idea_ where you parked? Then you pace and pace, pressing the “panic” button and just praying things will work out for you, and you won’t have to give in and curl up in the fetal position on the pavement? If you’re familiar with this scenario and you have an Android, then you’re in luck. Google Now, the personal assistant that comes with Android devices, now comes with a vehicle tracking function. Google Now uses your phone’s sensors to detect when you’ve left a moving vehicle, Google[ explains](https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/6015842), and then a location card will pop up on a map to let you know where you left your car. But beware: these location cards might also pop up if you’ve left a friend’s car or a bus. So no, it’s not a perfect system, but luckily you can choose to turn off parking location cards altogether if you’re not driving that day. Man, isn’t it crazy to think that if this technology had existed 15 years ago, [one of the greatest films of our time](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0242423/) would never have happened? ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/84582/google-can-now-help-you-remember-where-you-parked-your-car/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/84582/google-can-now-help-you-remember-where-you-parked-your-car/"},"headline":"Google Can Now Help You Remember Where You Parked Your Car","datePublished":"2014-05-01T18:24:56.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:09:19.350Z","description":"No more wandering around like a helpless puppy!","url":"https://time.com/84582/google-can-now-help-you-remember-where-you-parked-your-car/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Google","Technology","apps","cars","Android","parking"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc29d0cbc13558a52/69868d6936176024e990bc90/478942551.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc29d0cbc13558a52/69868d6936176024e990bc90/478942551.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"478942551","caption":"478942551","creditText":"Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/84582/google-can-now-help-you-remember-where-you-parked-your-car/","name":"Google Can Now Help You Remember Where You Parked Your Car"}}]}] ```