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Senior Product Manager, Google Maps

If you're like me, you forget where you park all the time. Worry no more, because Google Maps will remember for you. No more taking photos in parking lots or fiddling with app settings or taking screenshots to remember. Get in a car with Google Maps and connect to your car with USB, Bluetooth or CarPlay, and once you're done driving, there's a little pin waiting for you when you open Google Maps next-- a personal parking Maps valet, just for you. When you drive again, the pin goes away, just like that. Here's to technology, however small, that just works. Available now on iOS.

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So this is automating the Save your parking feature in maps right?

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Google maps took its time, it’s been available on Waze and Apple Plans for a decade.

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This is such a handy feature! Makes me curious though on what happens when you park in a basement/ underground lot/multistorey parking where there’s no signal? Does it still figure it out somehow?

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Love it when a company as big as Google takes care of such small features for better user experience… Rio I personally loved when you guys launched Take the flyover feature in India🙌

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Great! When will this feature be available on Android?

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This is such a great feature! I'm curious about parking lots with levels. Does it save the latitude and longitude only or is it more granular where you can capture the space #?

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Love small features like this that actually make life easier

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Here to pms who build technology that just works. Congrats Rio!

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