Direct motorists to parking areas or parking spaces, using hand signals or flashlights as necessary.

“Direct motorists to parking areas or parking spaces, using hand signals or flashlights as necessary.” is a supplemental task performed by Parking Attendants. Among the occupation's 18 rated tasks, workers place it 8th by importance (#11 most important). About 55% of workers say it is relevant to their job.

This is a single occupation-specific task statement from O*NET. The figures below describe how central the task is to the job and what independent studies measure about AI and this kind of work — not a prediction that the task will be automated.

Work activities this task rolls up to

O*NET groups concrete tasks into broader work activities shared across many occupations.

• Direct vehicle traffic. in Handling and Moving Objects

AI exposure

The OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rates this task E0. No direct exposure — current language models give little or no time savings on this task.

Exposure measures whether a model could meaningfully speed the task up — it is an estimate of overlap with model capabilities, not a measure of whether the work will be done by software. The study's intermediate score (β) for this task is 0.00. Automation potential label: T0.

Other tasks in this occupation

• Take numbered tags from customers, locate vehicles, and deliver vehicles, or provide customers with instructions for locating vehicles. · importance 4.5
• Inspect vehicles to detect any damage. · importance 4.5
• Greet customers and open their car doors. · importance 4.5
• Issue ticket stubs or place numbered tags on windshields, log tags or attach tag to customers' keys, and give customers matching tags for locating parked vehicles. · importance 4.4
• Perform cash handling tasks, such as making change, balancing and recording cash drawer, or distributing tips. · importance 4.1
• Patrol parking areas to prevent vehicle damage and vehicle or property thefts. · importance 4.0
• Explain and calculate parking charges, collect fees from customers, and respond to customer complaints. · importance 4.0
• Park and retrieve automobiles for customers in parking lots, storage garages, or new car lots. · importance 4.0
• Provide customer assistance and information, such as giving directions or handling wheelchairs. · importance 4.0
• Keep parking areas clean and orderly to ensure that space usage is maximized. · importance 3.8
• Escort customers to their vehicles to ensure their safety. · importance 3.6
• Perform maintenance on cars in storage to protect tires, batteries, or exteriors from deterioration. · importance 3.4
• Lift, position, and remove barricades to open or close parking areas. · importance 3.3
• Call emergency responders or the proper authorities and provide motorist assistance, such as giving directions or helping jump start a stalled vehicle. · importance 3.3

See all tasks on the Parking Attendants page.

Sources for this page

Every figure above traces to a named public dataset and the exact release below — not hand-written opinion. See the full methodology for what each measure does and does not mean.

• O*NET 30.3 U.S. Department of Labor / National Center for O*NET Development
• “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130 OpenAI / academic

Data compiled June 2, 2026. Figures are estimates, not advice.

@misc{singulariki-task-3189,
  title  = {Direct motorists to parking areas or parking spaces, using hand signals or flashlights as necessary.},
  author = {{Singulariki}},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130. Accessed June 7, 2026},
  url    = {https://singulariki.com/tasks/task-3189}
}