Using Machine Learning to Predict Parking Difficulty

According to the Telegraph, an average driver wastes a total of 2,549 hours looking for parking. That's 106 days of wasted time. Now, those are statistics in the UK, but I bet that drivers in the US living in metro areas waste just as much -- if not more -- time looking for parking. Last week, Google quietly launched a new parking feature for Google Maps on Android across 25 major US cities. If you are in these metro areas, you will now see a red parking sign that indicates limited parking availability to help you plan your trip.