I May be Moving Soon...
My parking and coining woes are over… in Miami, Santa Barbara, Dublin, Scotland, Germany, Austria, Bulgaria, and Australia.
"The automated system allows drivers who subscribe to simply dial in from their cell phone, punch in the number assigned to their parking spot, and the required costs — plus a 25-cent usage fee — will be billed to their credit card. When leaving, subscribers call back and end the billing cycle.
The Miami suburb began offering the system this month on its 4,573 meters; so far, more than 250 people have subscribed"(Reuters).
posted by Kathie Legg at 11:25 AM
1 Comments:
Thanks, Kathie, for demonstrating yet another way we are slowly phasing out cash money (the form of currency, not the record label).
I'm all for this, but is this call-in systemm really the most effective way of going about this? It doesn't really make my life all that much easier to call in a parking spot instead of putting coins in the slot. I'm thinking we could use EZ Pass technology here, no?
Of course, then we open Pandora's Privacy Concerns Box, don't we?
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