micromobility - Ebikes, scooters, longboards: Whatever floats your goat, this is micromobility
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"Transportation using lightweight vehicles such as bicycles or scooters, especially electric ones that may be borrowed as part of a self-service rental program in which people rent vehicles for short-term use within a town or city.
micromobility is seen as a potential solution to moving people more efficiently around cities"
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I had the same thought, it turns out the tech to do this has existed for a long, long time but it's never been implemented.
From a purely technical perspective, it should be possible to do this with an ODB-II device with GPS and BTLE. You could send everyone with a car the option to buy a device and register the device to associate it with their license plate.
Put a couple of plate readers around vulnerable areas with BTLE and make sure that the plate that's being read has an associated device. Any time one doesn't traffic enforcement comes in. You could even connect it to retracting bollards to make it physically impossible to enter vulnerable areas without a car that has a registered remote controlled governor.
Even from a security perspective it's not super hard to design, assuming the city is the trusted authority.
From an economic perspective, most of the hardware could be paid for by car owners since they would be buying a device that acts as a permit to enter the city. A device could additionally require a subscription, which would pay for the yearly costs of the server infrastructure and maintenance.
Once you had such a system in place, it would be pretty easy to even charge people tolls for entering sensitive areas. Hell, you could probably replace most of parking enforcement by just charging people a constant rate for being in the city. You could even use GPS to charge different rates in different parking zones.
They can just add it to the heated seat subscription!
Lol, yeah. I mean ODB-II would only be needed for older cars. New cars are all backdoored. It's probably technically feasible with no modification on anything made in the last couple of years... And if you're in the city when your city pass expires they can just lock you out and call the city to tow you, just like if you skip a loan payment.