Push for a pizza, swipe for a cleaner and tap for a taxi. The rise of apps like Uber is facilitating the culture of ‘I want it, and I want it now’. For digital-savvy city-dwellers from London to Beijing, everything you need – from your dinner to a ride home – is just an app away.

While it may be just a matter of time before all our cars are connected, AwareCar is hoping to speed up the process. A Bluetooth beacon with a corresponding app, AwareCar gives you relevant, location-based info on your car for just $9 – and it can even stop you getting a ticket.

Driving in and out of side streets, up ramp after ramp of multiple levels and then back down, and still no joy – it's a miserable limbo that every inner-city driver has had the misfortune of experiencing when hunting for a parking space. Now, Evopark is offering a way to park in peace.

While many have predicted that Uber and driverless technology would make the personal car a thing of the past, valet parking app Luxe is hoping to make car ownership infinitely more convenient. But how does it work, and can it be the answer to congested cities and nightmare parking?