Depends where you live. Here (Munich, Germany) all street parking is actually done and accounted for by the city and for a few years we've actually had a quite

Depends where you live. Here (Munich, Germany) all street parking is actually done and accounted for by the city and for a few years we've actually had a quite awesome system that I am 100% happy with. Just as if it this was not Germany where you often can't pay without cash :D So it's an app where you use the same account to log in that you can use for public transport, and the geolocation so far has always matched me up with the correct parking spot and I can just start (by-minute pricing) and stop again, it reminds me if I forgot to check out and it gets paid from my billing info that is in that account, same as when I take the subway. Now if we're talking about private parking lots, that's where I am probably ok to keep on using cash or card, and nothing with an account.