When you head away on your travels, it is always recommended to hire a car to find the best locations and get away from the tourists. But, hiring a car and driving around a new city can be time-consuming and stressful when you look for a location to park your car.
I am not sure about everyone else, but we have a tendency to over-rely on incredible Google Maps and/or Waze when travelling as both apps will direct you to your destination, usually offering the quickest method available, whilst you focus on your driving.
The latest Google Maps will now find parking spots along the way to your ultimate destination. It’s as simple as selecting “Find Parking” and, whilst you drive, Google will offer you various parking options and you can pick or choose, depending on how close you are to your final point.
Google is now becoming a major contender when it comes to location-based solutions. While having Waze, Google Maps, Urban Engines, and together with its autonomous driving technology (which will probably be available in the upcoming years) it seems like they have the ability to disrupt the Automotive industry. However, the Mobility-as-a-service market is still not profitable.
Uber and Google are still not making money by offering mobility services such as Waze, Maps, or ride-hailing services. Yet, they do disrupt a whole industry which used to be very strong for over four decades.
Uber is a like a “Mack Truck just rolling down the street gaining speed,” said Magid Advisors President Mike Vorhaus on CNBC’s “Fast Money” this week. “So I do think we’re eventually going to see this in the numbers of auto sales.”
These tech giants understood that when cars will become electric and autonomous (and probably cheaper as well), there will be a huge gap in the middle to provide mobility services packages. Same as the Smartphone revolution. The automotive manufactures know that there is a big “storm” coming ahead and are making the right changes to become competitor in this field. But there is a question which still stands – How can companies like Toyota, BMW, Mercedes-Benz and General Motors, who are experts when it comes to metal and oil, will compete in the unknown territory of IT against Google, Uber and others tech giants?
After disrupting the Internet,Mobile, Music, Video, Gaming, Navigation, Mapping, Operating systems and many other industries – Google is planning to do it again to the Automotive industry.
