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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Regna@lemmy.world to c/mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world

I was reminded of this when I read a “Shower thoughts” post about clocks.

Where I live, there usually is free parking outside of stores and malls, but limited to a short time, such as 15 minutes or a couple of hours. People have parking discs that they rotate to show when they arrived, and put the discs up visible behind their windshields in their cars.

I have an automatic parking timer displayed in my windshield, that shows the time when I parked rounded up to the nearest half/whole hour. It’s a ”set and forget” thing, which auto adjusts to daylight savings. However, it speeds up 1 - 2 minutes a week, which I didn't see as it rounds up the time, but I found out after a few months.

Once after parking, I took a quick dash into the store, took maybe 5 minutes. When I got back I had received a fine for the equivalent of 80 € for ”parking for 23 hours in a 2 hour spot”. They apparently don’t have to wait five minutes to write out the ticket if the parking timer was so off.

I didn’t contest the ticket, I considered it a learning experience and a reminder to never blindly trust technology.

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[-] FederatedSaint@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Wow, that's frustrating. I've never heard of such a device. Why is it up to you to proclaim how long you've been parking there? Where do you live? Everywhere I've been (in the US) it's up to parking enforcement to determine if a car has been there too long or not.

[-] SomethingBurger@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

In France, maybe other places in Europe, some parking spots require you to have a "parking disc" as we call it, set to your time of arrival.

[-] CmdrShepard@lemmy.one 3 points 1 year ago

What stops people from lying about when they arrived?

[-] EmoDuck@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

Nothing really, but if you arrive at 2pm, set your disk to 3pm and the warden comes by at 2:30pm he'll probably figure out what you're up to.

[-] Hogger85b@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

That is probably what the warden assumed the op was actually doing, but the way they get you is if you have set it forward by 30mim say, but then the wardens clock.you within those 30min the time will be off by 23.30 hours

[-] Regna@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Sweden allows for half hours in setting the time rounded upwards, so if I arrive at 11:32, I can set the time to 12:00. But not to 12:30.

This varies from country to country though, some (France?) allow 15 minutes, some (Norway?) require the exact time.

[-] ristedeloegne@feddit.dk 1 points 1 year ago

If a parking enforcement person goes by at 9.45 and sees it set to, say 10.15, you have a problem.

[-] cybervseas@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

Yeah. In some places they chalk the tires to track if the car has been sitting too long. It's not the drivers job to track that. Why should it be?

[-] saiturihiiva@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

Of course it's primarily the drivers job to make sure they don't park illegally, the enforcement is there only to catch those who do not. Setting a disk that states when you got there is not a big requirement but does help make sure some drivers don't overstay on limited parking space.

Driving (or owning) a car is not a common right, it's a proviledge to be earned by being able to show you are responsible enough to steer a vehicle that can very easily end up maiming or killing someone. This is why you need a license to drive and why it is ok to give added responsibilities, like using a parking disc if needed. And if you fail to fill these responsibilities, you should be fined or in more serious cases lose your license.

[-] Lumidaub@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

I don't even have a driver's license so no horse in this race but they're using a parking space for free so I don't think it's too much to ask to cooperate and spend 10 seconds setting a dial.

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