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Modern parking meters have a flashing LED that faces the street,
presumably for ease of enforcement: a green light signifies time
left
on the meter, whereas a red light indicates time has expired.
Thus, a
thin stick-on electronic device with a flashing green light would
probably let you park
as long as you liked without paying.
Anyone who feels any sort of moral compunctions about such a
device should be a aware that a parking ticket in Los Angeles costs
about $80 these days. That should be all the justification you
need.
[n_m_r]'s suggestion baked in the '70s
https://www.youtube...AG627K_E91U#t=0m35s
"That'll fix 'er"... "That viscious, heartless trafficwardeness: the scourge of the jet-set." [TomP, Oct 29 2014]
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Bring your own meter...just some pipe and a box.. |
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Howabout a red laser beam to decoy the meter maids? You mount
the laser across the street, point it at the LED of a meter, and make it
look like it is flashing red when it really isn't. After enough false
alarms, the meter enforcers will all give up and go home. |
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I was reminded of the old London scam, where people made fake post boxes, put them out in the wee hours then took them away at night, to get the postal orders or cheques posted during the day. |
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So just make a slightly larger parking meter, clamp it over the original one...suggest trying this on a parked car that isn't yours first time... |
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Maybe the car just needs to recognize the flashing LED light and go park itself somewhere else for awhile? |
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Given the technology of the times, I think the meters would be
electronically reporting that they were "expired" to somewhere,
somehow. |
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Modern parking meters are an app on your phone. |
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I think parking is going out of fashion. One day, we will all be forced to own self-drive cars, and the only good thing about it will be the ability to tell the car, "Just keep driving round the block until I finish shopping." |
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// "Just keep driving round the block until I finish
shopping." // |
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That brings up a question: Why is it that it is free
to drive on public roads in the city, but it is not
free to park on the public roads. Currently there
are some very good reasons for that, but that will
change with automatic cars. |
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At the point where automatic cars are fully
capable of circling, there will need to be some
incentive to have unoccupied cars park
themselves rather than circle. The automated cars
could park very efficiently, parking in tight masses
as long as there's a communication protocol so car
can reshuffle when a car in the middle needs to
get out. The incentive could be tolls for every
mile driven on the road, or it could be public
parking that is cheaper than the energy to keep
circling. |
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// 4-inch by 1-inch LCD panel that flashes dimly red
when the meter is expired. When not expired, it
just goes blank // |
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Could the entire flashing red display be blocked with
a bit of opaque cling film? It seems like quite a few
electronic gadgets in the store are packaged with
such a film over the LCD to give a sample of the
display without the device being powered on. |
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//Bring your own meter...just some pipe and a box..// |
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"Diabolically cunning!" [link] |
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Wouldn't it be cheaper to have an assortment of sticky-
backed squares of green cellophane to place over the
already supplied red LED? |
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Considering that red and green are both primary colors
for light, that wouldn't really work. |
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