When the ride ends, the AV can't circle the block. Dwell gives autonomous vehicle operators real-time access to staging areas, pre-positioning intelligence, and compliant temporary spaces — built on the global peer-to-peer parking network that Spacer pioneered, now spanning Australia, the United States, and Canada.
// Pre-position fleet before morning peak const dwell = new SpacerDwell('dw_live_••••••••'); const staging = await dwell.spaces.search({ lat: -33.8688, lng: 151.2093, radius: 1000, av_compliant: true, ev_charging: true, min_bays: 8 });
{ "data": [{ "venue": "Westfield Sydney Carpark", "av_staging": { "compliant": true, "council_permit": "CoS-AV-2026-041", "max_dwell_hrs": 4 }, "ev_bays_available": 6, "demand_forecast_30m": "high" }] }
Councils and municipalities across Australia, the US, UK, and Europe are moving fast to regulate autonomous vehicles on public roads. Street idling — the informal backstop that early ride-share relied on — will not be available to AV fleets. Legislation is either already in place or being drafted in nearly every major jurisdiction.
The restrictions vary by name — Local Government Areas, City Districts, Boroughs, Municipalities — but the intent is consistent: autonomous vehicles will not be permitted to park and wait on public streets between rides. They will need designated, compliant spaces.
When Uber launched, it had no designated waiting areas. Taxi ranks were off-limits by law. Drivers circled blocks, double-parked in loading zones, and created congestion — all because no infrastructure existed for a new kind of vehicle service. Cities spent years retrofitting kerb rules, creating ride-share pick-up zones, and legislating ad-hoc solutions.
Autonomous vehicles face the same structural gap — at ten times the scale, with zero tolerance from regulators who watched the Uber chaos and are determined not to repeat it.
Every AV fleet operator — mobility providers, logistics companies, last-mile delivery — will need a real-time way to find, book, and manage compliant staging areas across every market they enter. Spacer already operates the peer-to-peer parking network in those markets. There is no incumbent AV staging solution. The market is open and the network is ready.
In 2015, Mike Rosenbaum and Roland Tam sat down in Sydney, conceived an idea over a coffee, and built it out over many late nights. The insight was simple: underutilised assets sit idle all around us. A garage nobody uses. A driveway that's never full. Technology could unlock all of it — and give the owner a new income stream in the process.
That idea became Spacer. Originally founded, tested, and proven in Australia, the peer-to-peer model has since gone global across four brands: Spacer in Australia, Spacer in the United States, Parkhound for monthly parking, and WhereiPark for group corporate parking across North America — serving drivers, commuters, businesses, and property managers in thousands of cities.
Dwell is the next extension of that same philosophy. An autonomous vehicle between rides is just another underutilised asset. The global peer-to-peer network is already there — 30,000+ spaces live and transacting. Dwell is the intelligent API layer that makes it work for fleets.
From real-time staging discovery to ML-powered pre-positioning — Dwell is the infrastructure layer the autonomous vehicle industry has been waiting for, backed by a global peer-to-peer parking network already operating across Australia, the US, and Canada.
Dwell fits into your existing dispatch and fleet management systems through a clean REST API. No new infrastructure to build — just a new layer of intelligence on top of a peer-to-peer parking network already proven across three countries.
A clean REST API — versioned, documented, and built around the patterns developers already know. Integrate Dwell into your fleet management system in hours, not weeks.
Without a dedicated staging platform, AV operators are making phone calls, building manual relationships with car parks, and hoping the space is available. That doesn't scale.
| Capability | With Dwell | Without Dwell |
|---|---|---|
| Find AV-compliant staging areas | ✓API search, real-time, permit-tagged | ✗Manual calls to each car park |
| Know if a bay is free right now | ✓IoT sensors, 3-second updates | ✗Drive there and hope |
| Pre-position before demand peaks | ✓ML demand forecast, 30–60 min horizon | ✗Reactive only — always behind demand |
| Verify council permit status | ✓Per-space, per-council, per-zone | ✗Legal research per location |
| Book multiple bays for a fleet | ✓Batch booking, vehicle-level assignment | ✗No mechanism exists |
| React when a staging zone fills | ✓Webhooks, real-time zone alerts | ✗Driver discovers it on arrival |
| EV charging availability | ✓Live EV bay count in every response | ✗Unknown until on-site |
| Fleet staging analytics | ✓Dwell time, cost per deployment, trends | ✗No data collected at all |
| Access to existing space inventory | ✓30,000+ Spacer-network spaces, live today | ✗Build your own supply from scratch |
Dwell is in active development. Pricing plans will be announced ahead of our public launch — get in touch early to discuss access and partnership opportunities.
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