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We've watched our local (seaside town) carparks turn to an absolute shit show with the arrival of these. Before: insert money, get ticket. Now: type registratio
by dmje 4y ago
We've watched our local (seaside town) carparks turn to an absolute shit show with the arrival of these. Before: insert money, get ticket. Now: type registration number (on non qwerty keyboard), lots of to-ing and fro-ing as person / spouse tries to remember registration number; hop between totally non intuitive set of screens trying to figure out how to pay; ticket eventually drops out through badly designed slot and is blown away on the sea breeze.
Meanwhile: ad companies presumably hoover up registration marketing data and sell it on.
What also drives me nuts is the "soft" element that has been removed. In the old days you bought a space and then had that nice interaction with other people if you left early when you could give them your ticket.
Not only is this new approach profit maximisation at the expense of ease of use, it's also profit maximisation at the expense of social contact.
Legally, I'd be interested to know if anyone's done the work on what renting a space looks like. I mean, I've paid for that space for one hour so if I leave after half an hour, don't I have a say over giving my ticket to a random...?
- mdp2021 4y ago> Meanwhile: ad companies presumably hoover up registration marketing data and sell it on Under which legal agreement? "If you park, then you agree"? _Parking_ as a sufficient condition?
- hansvm 4y agoUnder the legal agreement that most people can't be arsed to sue every mom and pop oligopoly exploiting their personal data.
- mdp2021 4y ago> most people can't be arsed to sue Now let us review why a "society" should make sense, and if some agents become a collective affront to natural rights the action should be collective. In this case (and more), the apparent agent is the municipality - which shows the perversion of these days.
- Macha 4y agoI'm sure legally it specifies the use of the space is non-transferable and it's just as legally defensible as rules against subletting tenancies.
- benhurmarcel 4y agoThe license plate is needed because they use image recognition (often mounted on a moving car) to check for illegally parked cars and send fines. The scan the plates and check whether they paid or not. It's much faster and cheaper than checking tickets manually.