Weird, cars don’t honk in Germany when we lock them. We don’t tend to lose our cars. The blinking lights are more than sufficient.

i would guess parking lots in us are much bigger than in Europe

A couple times when I worked for a very large company, with an ocean of cars in the lot, I had to resort to hitting the open trunk button and walking around looking for that.

If there's nobody around you can hit the panic button too.

Didn't you want to become famous like this guy?

https://globalnews.ca/news/3612580/syracuse-teen-loses-car-t...

Take a photo of your cars location and parking level info with your phone.

Some airport parking garages will tell you where your car is parked when you pay at the kiosk. With license plate scanners and a vehicle scanning all the plates periodically..

http://archive.boston.com/business/globe/articles/2005/03/13...

Google Maps has a nice feature now where it offers to remember your parking location at the end of a journey. Handy if you're in a new area.

That requires remembering to do so beforehand, though.

A bad experience does the job.