alt Hacker News> That's like saying that using tax dollars to pay for roads assumes that everyone has a car.
Well once the government subsidizes roads they proliferate it and becomes more difficult to exist without a car. Your example supports my argument.
>try using "Parkmobile" without a mobile phone.
I would never, ever try using "parkmobile"
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My city's public parking lots, garages, and street parking use Parkmobile to collect payment, and AFAICT that kind of arrangement is not terribly unusual. I suppose anti-parkmobile drivers could stick to the few overpriced privately-owned lots in town, though.
If you're saying that you don't drive, then congrats, and I hope to catch up to you soon.
That's a good call. They had a databreach[1]—and paid out 4x 25 cent in-app credits to the affected people.
Your argument would make more sense if the vast majority of the species didn’t already have a smartphone.
They are hard to avoid. Where I live in northern NJ the on street parking is all Parkmobile. At the Jersey shore where I go the beach parking lot is Parkmobile. Just got back from Tampa - more on-street Parkmobile (ditto Clearwater & Sand Key, incl. town-owned public beach access lot).
No doubt you can avoid it if you really want to, but they seem to be everywhere.