Rummaging around for coins at the car park could soon be a thing of past if a new wireless payment system being tested by German premium manufacture Audi catches on.
At its headquarters in Ingolstadt, the Volkswagen subsidiary is working on a pilot system called “Connect” which would enable the driver to pay car-park fees wirelessly and without getting out of the vehicle, reports the motoring gazette Autobild.
The car-maker is cooperating with the IFG car park company of Germany, which administers 6,200 spaces in multi-storey and underground garages in the Bavarian city.
A RFID (radio frequency identification) transmitter attached to the windscreen of the car sends a signal to a reader on the car park barrier which permits entry and exit providing the correct fee has been paid.
Audi plans to equip 13,000 cars with the device as a pilot project before making the system generally available at the end of the year.