Re:'The tyranny of apps': those without smartphones are unfa...
by piperswe on Sunday February 23, 2025 @10:36AM
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In Austin, I've parked in a handful of parking garages that require using an app. They have license plate recognition on entry and exit, and they mail you a nastygram if you enter/exit without linking a credit card to your plate online.
US here (you are presumably elsewhere given that you said "car park"), but I can't remember ever seeing a parking garage that had a parking app. All of them are like you describe, with pay-on-exit.
I mainly see parking apps for street parking (where pay-on-exit can't work), and sometimes more basic parking lots where there isn't room for the entry/exit gate and hardware, or lots where it's bare-bones enough that the owner certainly isn't going to spring for the expense of installing something like that.