I would pay ~$10/month for email alerts when an officer is within a geofence of my car.
Find SF parking cops
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#212Earlier quoted context omitted.
The loserboard I'd be interested in is which license plates consistently receive the most tickets.
I'd guess the top spots are just super wealthy people who figure that at their "hourly rate", paying for parking is basically more costly than just eating the tickets. Like if someone's time is worth $10k+/hour, the parking tickets are basically just premium parking fees that are still "cheaper" than spending even a minute dealing with payment... Let your assistant pay whatever tickets you get in the mail instead.
They are definitely people who live in their cars and don’t pay the tickets.
EDIT: did a search to see if anyone had analyzed this and here’s reporting that shows basically this. None of the top cars are remotely luxury, eg.
https://sfstandard.com/2024/04/15/parking-tickets-san-franci...
Re: Find SF parking cops
#213Can the city just keep the top five and fire the rest, you know tax savings lol although I’d get a parking ticket, surely
traffic enforcement is pretty much the only cashflow positive city business
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#214I would pay ~$10/month for email alerts when an officer is within a geofence of my car.
Then someone will know where your car is at all times, and probably who you are... and that is monetizable (not from you).
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#215Probably a good time to tell people that SF operates a "Text Before Tow Program" where you can get a warning that you're about to get towed: https://www.sfmta.com/text-tow-program
>> A tow truck will be dispatched in conjunction with the text message notification and could be there in as few as five minutes.
If only they operate in good faith, and that is something I'd highly doubt given its SFMTA. As in they could call tow truck ahead of time, so that its almost unlikely the person will be able to get to their car in time.
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#216I did a fascinating analysis of SFMTA data a few years back. They posted a public list of names and license plates [1] that they refuse to take down, despite many emails from me over the years. I found a particular license plate that belonged to a plumber with an impeccable 5 star reputation on Yelp, whose business in SF was effectively ended by street sweeping fines. He accidentally paid the same ticket twice, which…
> street sweeping fines Why the hell does SF need to sweep the streets so much?
I have a video from a street I used to live on that might illustrate what happens in between cleanings (you'll have to turn the camera view down to face the curb to see): https://youtu.be/ew4fMB7OIyo?t=8
I think at the time the video was taken the red car had been there a while.
The video is not very high-resolution admittedly, but you can gather how things go. If you'd like, here's a screen grab https://imgur.com/a/YTymus3
Re: Find SF parking cops
#217I would pay ~$10/month for email alerts when an officer is within a geofence of my car.
Then someone will know where your car is at all times, and probably who you are... and that is monetizable (not from you).
Google maps is free to use so obviously I'm the product Google sells. I'd say I'm getting a fair deal letting "them" track my location. (Why does nobody ever complain about them insisting on gender neutral pronouns? They must be very powerful.)
Re: Find SF parking cops
#218Let's say that some people are opposed to the city's enforcement of parking rules against them (people who don't want parking tickets for overstaying in a spot, nor for parking somewhere they aren't supposed to). Let's also say that some other people support the enforcement against that first group (e.g., small brick&mortar businesses, and people who want more parking available for quick errands). If the Opposed grou…
Just charge market rates for land. Overstaying (aka overconsumption) is mostly just a predictable consequence of selling something valuable at far below what its value.
Ah yes, the free market, which tends to always work in favor of the majority of people and common good.
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#219Oh wow this is from the same author as https://walzr.com/bop-spotter -- love these projects
Odd detail about the page, on the left it says "Audio feed courtesy of Orchestra" but the link goes to some dystopian panopticon kinda surveillance app.
I think they're being cheeky. I assume Orchestra is the dystopian company providing the "ShotSpotter" service to SF, and bop spotter is piggy backing on the api.
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#220I would pay ~$10/month for email alerts when an officer is within a geofence of my car.
Then someone will know where your car is at all times, and probably who you are... and that is monetizable (not from you).
If you do not believe that is already true on multiple axes, you are probably mistaken. The combination of automated license plate scanners, phone beacon data, and behavioral metrics make that relatively straightforward to get, in aggregate.
I worked on a project where we could tell how many users were in a given store at a time (historically, not realtime) based on wifi traces, mobile data aggregation from carriers, and bluetooth pings. We could generally back it up to even general demographic data like how much disposable income the users were likely to have. Interesting project, deeply worrying how much data is running around out there.