7A Testing the Hypothesis

I lived several cities in United States, Boston, Massachusetts, Eugene, Oregon, San Francisco, California, Houston, Texas, and Gainesville, Florida. Those cities are different, but they share one specific problem. The Parking problem. 

I'm definitely sure that most of students or residents who have car have faced this problem at least once in this city. So the opportunity I would like to talk about is the solving parking space problem by smart phone application 

-          Who: people

-          What: hard to find place to park their car

-          Why: College parking space is restricted for college faculties or residents, so do apartments parking space

-          Testing the Who: The person who owns a car, and have ever faced problem on finding out parking space

-          Testing the What: How they find out the parking space, where they park, difference between city and small town.

-          Testing the Why: It would make people to save their time on finding out parking space, and it would manage the parking space efficiently

Interview 1: My church friend – He is the person who usually gives me a ride. He lives in SpyGlass apartment, which has pretty enough parking space. So he said he does not really need to find the parking space, but he would prefer to park his car around his house, so what he wanted was managing space efficiently, so people can park their car around their house or closer.

Interview 2: My formal roommate in Boston. –Boston was different as Gainesville. As it is one of the biggest cities in United States. In Boston, it is hard to find public parking spaces, and it is usually full. Most of parking spots are limited for residents, but also most of the spaces are required to pay. He had tickets several times by parking car around sidewalk, so he really wants to find out the parking spaces.

Interview 3: My roommate – He said my idea is really interesting, cause this is what every people needs. He does not have a car, but he said when he was with his friends, the driver always suffers from the parking places or tickets.

Interview 4: My parents – I talked about the venture, and they said it would work definitely. They live in apartment so they have never faced parking problem around home, but they had when they went to restaurant. In Boston, some of restaurants are just placed in street blocks so some cars just park right next to the sidewalk. There are sign of parking such as ‘resident only’, so they had to move around and around to find the places.

Interview 5: Classmate- He has his own car, but he couldn’t find the place to park in school, (the parking spaces around his class building are just for faculties or residents), so he uses bus to get to school. He said last week, he parked he missed the bus, so he parked his car at McDonalds, which makes me feel sad. He wants to see this application as soon as possible so he does not have to park his car again in McDonalds.

The thing I learned : This idea looks like surely needed than I thought. Most of people faced parking problems, whether they had car or not. I can see the necessity of this application.