Detroit Gets High-Tech Parking Meters

19 Apr, 2004 at 11:02am ET Article published in Tech

DETROIT (AP) – Credit cards, cell phones and even old fashion cash can be used to operate a new series of high-tech parking meters going up around town. Some drivers find them a bit intimidating.

“You need a master’s degree or something,” said Robert Blackwell as he tried to figure out how to use one of the new meters in downtown Detroit. “All I’m trying to do is not get a parking ticket.”

The meters are part of a 90-day experiment with battery and solar-powered, online-operated parking meters.

Source: Excite/Associated Press

Comments

19 Apr 2004 ~ 11:08am Camman wow people are smart, its a parking meter folks
19 Apr 2004 ~ 11:16am McBain yeah....you haven't met some people in detroit.
19 Apr 2004 ~ 1:39pm primesuspect Pfff. Parking + Detroit = cluster****

Anybody who's ever worked downtown or had to go downtown for whatever reason knows exactly what I'm talking about. I've gotten so many parking tickets in the D, it's sick.

Can't wait to meet the new "smart" meters
19 Apr 2004 ~ 1:50pm KingFish /me wonders if it'll mail you a ticket automatically without stupid human intervention
19 Apr 2004 ~ 4:29pm Thrax So glad Detroit could spend money on new, and obviously expensive parking meters instead of fixing the more insidious problems that are sapping that city.