Parking Meters
Parking meters are terribly designed.
There is no reason for a parking meter to display how much time is left. It should display how much time is left while you’re adding in coins, but afterward it should only say whether there’s still time or not. Why you ask?
-Cops should not be able to see when they can come back to fine me. That’s BS.
-I should not be able to fill it up again. That’s illegal.
-There is no reason that I would need to know how much time I have left. I’m not allowed to fill it up again anyhow…
-Friendly citizens should also not be able to help me out by filling up low meters - also illegal.
-And the biggest point. Thieves should not see how much longer I expect to be away. That’s ridiculous. Yesterday, my car was at the Park & Ride for 10 hours. I don’t want a thief to know that he has nothing to worry about until night-time. Ridiculous.
Thoughts? I have at least one counterargument for myself…
