You have finished your shopping. Laden with bags you trudge back to the car
only to realise that you have forgotten where you parked it. For members of the
AA motoring organisation, help will soon be at hand. A call to the AA will send
a message via satellite to a unit fitted in your car, making its headlights
flash. The service could save absent-minded drivers hours of searching, the AA
says.
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