Your Car is the Parking Ticket

At the entrance of many Korean parking lots you won't find anymore a barrier with the distributors of paper tickets. Usually these tickets serve as time-stamps, in the sense that they record the time in which you enter the parking lot and are used to compute the length of your staying (with relative fee) when you exit.

In Korean parking lots, a camera reads the numbers on your car-plate, stores them in a database associating them with the current time. At the exit, when approaching the cashier, another camera reads again your car-plate, and the system authomatically computes your fee by recalling the previosuly stored information. No risk anymore to loose the ticket and to pay an expansive fine: your car is, in fact, the ticket!

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