Detroit Gets High-Tech Parking Meters

KingFishKingFish
edited April 2004 in Science & 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

  • CammanCamman NEW! England Icrontian
    edited April 2004
    wow people are smart, its a parking meter folks
  • McBainMcBain San Clemente, CA New
    edited April 2004
    yeah....you haven't met some people in detroit.
  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited April 2004
    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 :rolleyes:
  • KingFishKingFish
    wonders if it'll mail you a ticket automatically without stupid human intervention
    edited April 2004
    wonders if it'll mail you a ticket automatically without stupid human intervention
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited April 2004
    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.
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