Watch as traveller discovers a trick that means you’ll never lose your motor in an airport car park again

A VIDEO showing off some neat tech means that you should never have a problem finding your motor in an airport car park again.

After a long holiday abroad, most travellers often struggle to remember where they parked their car.

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Handily, TikTok user @giftstogafna filmed a video showing how he located his car at Heathrow airport car park.

He first enters the number plate on the Car Finder screen and, seconds later, it tells him in which bay his car is parked.

When a driver arrives at the car park barrier, a numberplate recognition system takes the registration and automatically prints it on the ticket.

An information screen at the barrier informs the driver where to find a space, and illuminated arrows on the floor guide the empty bay, marked by a green light above it.

The car is tracked by up to 35 infrared cameras, which feed details of where it is parked into the system, the Evening Standard reports.

This technology was developed by Siemens and installed at Heathrow Airport in 2013.

Hugh Fenn, a spokesman for airports operator BAA, said to the Evening Standard: “Talking to our customers, the things they have found necessary are the speed of finding a space and locating their car when they get back.

“Understandably, they want to do that quickly. This technology can ensure people do that because it knows where their number plate is parked.

“The technology is also highly environmentally friendly. It stops people driving round and round looking for spaces or stopping with their engine running while they wait for one.”

However, some users were less than complimentary about the technology.

One said: “This has been out for ages. Tested it when Heathrow Terminal 2 was still under construction.”

Another said: “It couldn’t find my car.”

A third pointed out: “Very old machine.”

This comes after residents living near Heathrow Airport say they’re fed up with some parking firms dumping cars on their streets for weeks at a time.

Plus, Gatwick Airport is set to introduce a fleet of toaster-shaped robot valets to automatically park holidaymakers’ cars.