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Jen

@CiaraNi An example from a recent holiday: being unable to pay for parking because it has to be done by (yet another) app, but the carpark is in a remote area with no signal to download the app.

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Ciara

@JetlagJen That's a great example. Well, not great to be in the situation, but this illustrates the kind of real-life scenario the designers didn't think of when going for an exclusively digital solution - no signal!

Jen

@CiaraNi exactly! Car parks aren't just in city centres. This one was by a beach. Even us chronically online folk struggled.

JanPV

@JetlagJen The other side of it is being local and incrementally subjected to tourist-rate parking fees every time we go out - often to places that, previously, had no fees. But the lack of thought with parking machines is, I agree, ridiculous.

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