Ask HN: Using historic parking citation data to never get fined again?
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Simple: park where you are allowed to, for how long you paid for/are allowed to. No need to build anything… except discipline.
Yeah. That would one way of doing it. In my personal case, most of my citations are due forgetting to move the car on so called "Service days", which happens once a week on different weekdays, on different times depending on the street you are parked on.
One issue is also that your not allowed to park closer than 10 meter to a crossing or a cross walk, and they measure your position with lasers. So if you are 10 cm off. That's a fine right there.
Seems like some way to be better aware of "service days" would be the solution (e.g. reminders or the like)?
The second seems like a more difficult problem to solve on your own; it's really up to the city to clearly demarcate where you're allowed to park and where you're not. 10cm on 10 metres is kind of ridiculous. This is a political thing.
I don't really see how this data can meaningfully help, other than maybe some sort of "lots of people have been fined in this street, so be aware to check where you're allowed to park"-type of warning.
The second seems like a more difficult problem to solve on your own; it's really up to the city to clearly demarcate where you're allowed to park and where you're not. 10cm on 10 metres is kind of ridiculous. This is a political thing.
I don't really see how this data can meaningfully help, other than maybe some sort of "lots of people have been fined in this street, so be aware to check where you're allowed to park"-type of warning.
Some cars are self-parking and can help you to parallell park. But it doesn't help you to park at the right spot, so the service is only half way. Should be potential to fill this gap
It amount to about 120 000 citations in total.
Each citation has the the following data points attached to it:
1.) Case number 2.) Street name 3.) Street number 4.) Citation date 5.) Violation type 6.) Fine amount 7.) Additional note
The problem statement is clear: "I never want to get a parking citation ever again"
So I want to build some sort of solution that can help me, and my fellow car owners, to never get fined again.
It would be a easy task to get even more historic citations if needed.
But with this as a starting point I would love suggestions, ideas and maybe some additional use cases to create this solution. I'm not a developer or data scientist, I'm more of the business/marketing guy that could push the solution to the masses, and I think the right solution could scale to more cities quite easily.
Any help would be appreciated! Happy to answer any questions.