The idea is you enter a parking lot to grocery store, movie theater, or strip club and you want to park as close as possible so that you can get to where you going as fast as possible or travel the least amount of distance. As you go through the parking lot you have a hard time finding a spot and you have to travel to see occasional open spot. You think "so far that's the closest spot but there might be a closer spot. Then you think how long should I spend looking, how long do I spend traveling around the parking lot, how long should I spend planning on finding the best parking spot, and how long do I spend thinking about planning?
It's just fun conundrum that been going through my head that should have interesting answers and has lead me to spends as little time thinking about finding a parking spot and just find the closest spot that I can see and just jump out and get inside the store
Picture unrelated just a dog of I held onto till his owner came and got him
That is a good algorithm. My local Walmart and target I can enter from back end of the parking lot. I could go to the exit I want and gamble on on how close I want to get and if fail I go over an aisle and park at the first spot available, like you said.
Then entering from the side, if I want to get to the opposite entrance on the far side and then I have to decide if waiting on pedestrian traffic is worth it because it can be this annoying trickle