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> On a visit to Denmark I saw their simple system. You car has a plastic clock face mounted on the inside of the windshield. This is common in several countrie
by TacticalCoder 4y ago
> On a visit to Denmark I saw their simple system. You car has a plastic clock face mounted on the inside of the windshield.
This is common in several countries in Europe. Typically a white dial / black digits rotating inside a square blue disk [0].
In Belgium the streets where that metering system is used (but the city also uses other metering systems: it's on a street by street basis) have a little picture of that disk printed on the street at regular intervals. It's very common to have some streets where parking is totally free, others that use this plastic clock disk and yet others that use a more common metering system.
It's a thing to set your timer on your phone to 1h55 minutes, knowing you have 5 minutes left to go advance the disk by two hours (yup, cheating).
Another common one is that typically at night parking is allowed, so you park on monday evening and directly set the clock to 8am. So you're good until 10am.
[0] https://www.google.com/search?q=disque+de+stationnement https://www.google.com/search?q=disque+de+stationnement
- cpeterso 4y agoTime to invent a little timer gizmo that fastens to the back of the windshield clock and advances it for you. ;)
- lll-o-lll 4y agoSooooo, like a clock?
- ToJans 4y agoThis has already been done, but the person got caught and got a fine.
- JustinVx 4y agoThose exist: https://www.bol.com/nl/p/automatisch-roterende-blauwe-parkeerschijf-parkeerkaart-parkeren-in-blauwe-zone/9300000135982615 https://www.bol.com/nl/p/automatisch-roterende-blauwe-parkee... They are of course illegal.
- blowski 4y agoI heard about this on Tom Scott's Lateral podcast recently.
- codetrotter 4y agoDoes it move in steps, or does it move continuously? Would be funny if it’s the latter and a parking inspector comes and while they are looking at the dial it is slowly turning around on its own. For that matter, even if it only moves in steps you could still be unlucky in several ways. For example if the parking inspector is looking at it at the same time as it makes a big leap forward in time. If the area is subject to multiple inspections every day then the parking inspector might also notice that the same car is sitting in the same spot between multiple inspection rounds over many hours. No amount of technologically advanced timers will help the cheater then. Perhaps someone could also invent car paint that changes colour every hour :p and then hope the parking inspector and everyone else are not looking the moment the colour changes.
- cpeterso 4y agoTo minimize the chance the parking inspector sees the clock advance, you probably just want to do it only once an hour or so.
- selcuka 4y ago> Perhaps someone could also invent car paint that changes colour every hour That, also exists: https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/5/23540358/bmw-color-changing-car-concept-e-ink-i-vision-dee-ces https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/5/23540358/bmw-color-changin...