Park & pay: the University of California at Santa Barbara is eliminating long lines with a park-and-pay-by-cell phone system.(Enterprise)

Wireless Week, May, 2005 by Smith, Brad

The United States increasingly is becoming a cashless society, although one of the purchases that has resisted that trend is the ubiquitous parking meter. In many places, quarters and dollar bills still have to be kept around to feed these hungry contraptions. It appears the parking meter might have a shortened lifespan sometime in the future, replaced by the ability to use your wireless handset to pay for parking.

No more struggling to find change. No more watching the clock to plug the meter again before time runs out. THE UCSB WAY A forerunner of what the future may bring is what's happening on the campus of the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB), where drivers can use their cell phone to pay for parking. If you forget your handset,...

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