[jeremy_wiebe]

My personal pet peeve is lots that show you the apps you can pay for parking with, but then make it extremely difficult to find the lot ID.

Pay-for parking feels like the kind of thing that should become a utility with one, easy, well-known way to pay for parking anywhere.

[adhesive_wombat]

"One way to park anywhere" sounds like a federated system, which is exactly how I think it should work. You could install one of many client apps, but all the parking companies can be paid for from any of them.

[NeoTar]

What is my incentive as a car-park owner to agree to your federated system when scummy company X has just offered me $1000 to exclusively allow them to collect fees for my car-park?

[asvitkine]

Have the city require it?

[NeoTar]

> Pay-for parking feels like the kind of thing that should become a utility with one, easy, well-known way to pay for parking anywhere.

The trouble is that this either requires government regulation, or for one company to effectively become a monopoly, which can lead to different abuses.