AI exposure: Parking Attendants
Park vehicles or issue tickets for customers in a parking lot or garage. May park or tend vehicles in environments such as a car dealership or rental car facility. May collect fee.
Reading this score
computedAt 11.3% of weighted task load, Parking Attendants sits at the 16th percentile, below the point where a job's centre of gravity has moved. 79.5% of what this role does is untouched, meaning current systems cannot produce that work at all, whatever the commercial incentive.
What holds the line here is embodiment. Across this occupation's 15 tasks it averages 2.73 out of 3, the highest of the five friction dimensions. In plain terms, the work has to happen in physical space. A language model cannot move matter. Until the robotics to do this work is both good enough and cheap enough to deploy widely, capability in software does not reach it.
The most exposed thing this job does is Perform cash handling tasks, at 37.5%. The least is Lift, position, and remove barricades to open or close parking areas, at 0.0%. A gap of 37.5% between two parts of the same job is the reason this index publishes at task level. An occupation-wide number would have hidden both.
Within transportation and material moving occupations, this one is less exposed than the median of 24.3% across the group's 52 roles, with 43 scoring higher. Being in an exposed family does not make a particular job exposed, and the reverse holds too.
What would move this score. Of 15 tasks, 3 are currently banded exposed, 0 assisted and 12 untouched. For that distribution to shift materially would take robotics cheap and reliable enough to deploy at scale, not a better language model. The score is re-computed every quarter against a fresh capability reference, and the change is published rather than quietly applied.
Where the score comes from
judgedEvery task is scored through the standardised work activities it maps to. These are this occupation’s averages on the six rubric dimensions. Capability is what AI can do; the other five are what stands in the way.
| Dimension | Mean | Scale |
|---|---|---|
| Capability | 0.73 | 0-4 |
| Embodiment | 2.73 | 0-3 |
| Presence | 1.53 | 0-3 |
| Accountability | 0.87 | 0-3 |
| Context | 1.03 | 0-3 |
| Verification cost | 1.20 | 0-3 |
Task by task
15 tasks, O*NET 31.0| Task | Exposed | Assisted | Untouched | Importance | Band |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Perform cash handling tasks, such as making change, balancing and recording cash drawer, or distributing tips. | 37.5% | 25.0% | 37.5% | 4.12 | exposed |
| Explain and calculate parking charges, collect fees from customers, and respond to customer complaints. | 36.7% | 13.3% | 50.0% | 4.01 | exposed |
| Provide customer assistance and information, such as giving directions or handling wheelchairs. | 30.0% | 20.0% | 50.0% | 3.97 | exposed |
| Call emergency responders or the proper authorities and provide motorist assistance, such as giving directions or helping jump start a stalled vehicle. | 16.2% | 21.2% | 62.5% | 3.32 | untouched |
| Inspect vehicles to detect any damage. | 10.0% | 15.0% | 75.0% | 4.49 | untouched |
| Patrol parking areas to prevent vehicle damage and vehicle or property thefts. | 8.3% | 16.7% | 75.0% | 4.03 | untouched |
| Park and retrieve automobiles for customers in parking lots, storage garages, or new car lots. | 6.7% | 18.3% | 75.0% | 4.00 | untouched |
| Take numbered tags from customers, locate vehicles, and deliver vehicles, or provide customers with instructions for locating vehicles. | 0.0% | 0.0% | 100.0% | 4.54 | untouched |
| Greet customers and open their car doors. | 0.0% | 0.0% | 100.0% | 4.47 | untouched |
| 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. | 0.0% | 0.0% | 100.0% | 4.39 | untouched |
| Keep parking areas clean and orderly to ensure that space usage is maximized. | 0.0% | 0.0% | 100.0% | 3.80 | untouched |
| Direct motorists to parking areas or parking spaces, using hand signals or flashlights as necessary. | 0.0% | 0.0% | 100.0% | 3.79 | untouched |
| Escort customers to their vehicles to ensure their safety. | 0.0% | 0.0% | 100.0% | 3.59 | untouched |
| Perform maintenance on cars in storage to protect tires, batteries, or exteriors from deterioration. | 0.0% | 0.0% | 100.0% | 3.40 | untouched |
| Lift, position, and remove barricades to open or close parking areas. | 0.0% | 0.0% | 100.0% | 3.33 | untouched |
Task text and importance ratings sourced from O*NET 31.0. Shares computed. The occupation score is the importance-weighted mean.
Occupations either side of this one
The four closest scores in the same occupational family, then the four closest anywhere in the index.
Read this carefully. Exposure is not displacement. A high score means current AI systems can produce this work, not that anyone will stop paying a person to do it. Adoption depends on economics, regulation and inertia that this index deliberately does not model. How the score is built.
What this means in practice
Most of this work is not reachable by current systems, so the immediate pressure is on the administrative edges of the role rather than its core: the scheduling, the reporting, the written records. That is where time is recovered.