The SMH article says "ParkPatrol, developed by Sydney-based software developer Crwdpower, sends alerts to iPhone and, soon, Google Android mobile users when a parking officer is near their car."Apparently councils have admitted that there is nothing they can do to combat this evil.
It amuses me no-end that a system put in place by councils to encourage people to park within the prescribed time limits and move on to share the parking around, is now whinging that this system exists.
As far as I can tell, this system augments and helps users enforce the limits themselves.
Surely the fines aren't about revenue raising but more about training offenders not to overstay next time? Or am I naive? ;-)
Surely if someone needs technology to help them avoid an over-stay in a parking spot everyone is a winner?
In a blaze of unparalled logic the article quotes the council as saying "The reality is that if people park their cars legally and adhere to rules set on local streets, there would be no need for applications like this."
Ahem, yeah, and there'd be no need for fines either dill-weed!
I remember the days when I could have a radar detector to alert me of the fact that the police were sending radiation into my car and my body for the purposes of speed enforcement.
Then they decided it was illegal for me to know what was entering my body without permission.
Luckily along came GPS technology to the rescue and we can once again be notified, mostly, of when the police are trying to catch us speeding. Funnily enough radar is not used so much. The police opt for lasers and induction methods of detection.
Of course they still have their old standby of just making the system illegal. Sure, just try to enforce that. Maybe they could put the internet filter onto it or make ISPs prevent the download - chumps!
When it comes to a war between technology and parking-Nazis I will always side with technology.
Now there's a turn up for the books.
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