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These pay-by-app parking setups are everywhere in Sweden, each parking owner has their own app, so you run around with a dozen shady parking apps on your phone.
by jakewins 4y ago
These pay-by-app parking setups are everywhere in Sweden, each parking owner has their own app, so you run around with a dozen shady parking apps on your phone.
It seems that is now being replaced by the app being optional - if you don’t do anything and just park and leave, you get a bill in the mail for the time your car was parked, based on license plate recognition. No signups, no parking tickets, just park and leave.
- emptybits 4y ago> if you don’t do anything and just park and leave, you get a bill in the mail for the time your car was parked, based on license plate recognition. No signups, no parking tickets, just park and leave I like this. It's civilized. As I said, the best interaction today could be no interaction. One way or another, convenience means you're probably trusting someone with information and linking it to an account or address or payment mechanism. For city governments, maybe this is okay. For commercial destinations and sketchy parking operators ... maybe not.
- Nextgrid 4y agoI wouldn't be surprised if some parking operations factor in a certain percentage of fines into their revenue model so that making everyone pay (and thus no more fines) would actually decrease their profits.