Disappointment. The problem in New York (and heck, in San Francisco) is that there's very little capacity and a lot of people to use it. One doesn't use an app

Disappointment. The problem in New York (and heck, in San Francisco) is that there's very little capacity and a lot of people to use it. One doesn't use an app or sensor-enabled sign to find where to park in Manhattan: you pay for a monthly space in a garage so that you're bleeding slightly less money and so that you have a consistent place to park, or you just use transit like everyone else. One doesn't use free wifi from random kiosks: you buy a cell phone plan so that you can have wireless anywhere (and you install the app to send you a notice when your preferred subway line melts down). Dynamically adjusted parking schemes will not be a welcome component of anyone's day to day life and commute. The traffic-planning data is a marginal improvement over running those little wires over the street to count cars, I suppose, and mmmaybe will help for special events? The hype is too much. You know what would deserve infrastructure hype? Use traffic data to adjust a real network of driverless cars or something that substantially improves capacity. These nonsense kiosks will probably help out some lost tourists, but the rest of New Yorkers will gleefully ignore them. Bringing up real infrastructure achievements like sewers just makes these look puny. We see the real motivation at the bottom of the article: targeting advertisements with wifi sniffing. The rest is just part of a sell job.