French meters notify police when time is up
Posted on January 12, 2009 by Chris
Apparently the police in France have got a lot more to do rather than walk up and down the street looking for parking violators so they have made their parking meters intelligent so they notify them when a car overstays its welcome.
With the exception of eliminating that feeling of relief you get when you get back to your car, you are over your time yet there is no ticket, this seems to me to be one of those ideas where the only comment is “about time”. I’d rather have the police out catching bad guys as opposed to checking meters. Now if we could only convince the meters to email us when they are getting close to being out of time so we can add money virtually and avoid that mad dash outside in the middle of a meeting to feed the meter. Better yet, just have the meter read an RFID tag on the car and bill me for the time used.
Welcome to Web 2.0…parking meter style.
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