The city of San Fransisco is experimenting with a new parking system that adjusts parking prices according to demand. This demand is measured using newly installed sensors. I predict a huge success, especially if they increase the upper bound of $6/hour on prices.
What is “success?” More revenue, fewer people on the road, more free parking spots, greater customer satisfaction? I suppose all of those could be true.
Personally I like it – but I don’t have a car and I think most(many?) drivers make too many unnecessary trips into congested areas instead of taking public transportation or carpooling or something.
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How precisely does it work?
I’m a sucker for icon graphics. I don’t drive in SF, can’t afford the cost of keeping a car here but one thing that immediately comes to mind is how is one to know how much parking will cost on a particular street without resorting to doing something dangerous like checking your phone while driving?