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Travel dilemmas: Apps can help find parking

Riddle me this, travelers: When is a car not a car? When it's an albatross. I thought my crummy rental was a car and not a South Seas winged creature as I whizzed south toward San Diego for a weekend. But that was before I tried to find parking.

Rental cars are a $30-billion-a-year business in the U.S., according to statistics from Auto Rental News. Despite ride-sharing services and public transportation, rental revenues grew by more than $1 billion from the previous year.

Sometimes it makes sense to have a car to cover a lot of ground quickly or to lug a lot of equipment. But then

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