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The parking garage one can be really insidious. The parking apps where I live in Canada have a terrible design; you absolute cannot start parking session withou
by somerandomqaguy 1y ago
The parking garage one can be really insidious. The parking apps where I live in Canada have a terrible design; you absolute cannot start parking session without an account that requires you to input name, address, phone number, and then the app itself has other technical glitches that genuinely made me wonder if I had been scammed.
What makes it doubly so is that the parking companies have been removing the parking machine terminals in some locations. The Royal BC Museum in Victoria BC comes to mind last time I was there. I'd be surprised if someone hasn't at least tried a QR code scam on it by now.
- ilrwbwrkhv 1y agoI never pay parking if a machine isn't there. I've never been caught. And if I'm ever fined I'm taking that all the way to court. One must have extreme disdain for such things.
- Arch-TK 1y agoThat's just all parking apps in my experience. The websites (if they exist) are usually about as bad. Car parks make more money if they can fine you, so there's no incentive to make payment easy or make it work reliably.
- XorNot 1y agoCar parks in Australia just have credit card NFC terminals which are provided by the banks.
- HPsquared 1y agoOh damn I never realised that. There is a class of services where they want to make payment difficult to collect penalties.
- trilbyglens 1y agoCitymove in Prague works really well and has great design ;)