We’ve all made the joke about selling our parking spots when leaving a prime location during a busy time. Apparently these guys didn’t realize it was a joke. Link from SpringWise.

“SpotScout claims to be the world’s first mobile exchange marketplace for parking spots, connecting parking spaces with drivers that are desperately seeking them.”

I picked up some family members from the new terminal at the Toronto airport over the Christmas holidays. The parking garage in the new terminal has sensors over every parking spot. At the end of each parking lane there is a display indicating how many empty spots are in that lane.

Instead of this ‘pay people to post empty parking spots’ junk, what if we incorporate these sensors into the city parking meters? You could then use that information in lot’s of cool ways. Have signs at the end of streets indicating the number of empty spots, have a city webpage accessible from mobile devices showing a map that indicates available spots. The information could also be combined with the meter information to make the whole meter-maid business simpler. Wow, redefining the meter-maid industry, how exciting.

Having said all that I cringe at the idea of living in a town that wired….

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