parking meters: why does the meter say "Insert & remove quickly", but it doesn't work that way at all?? for Questionland Seattle

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parking meters: why does the meter say "Insert & remove quickly", but it doesn't work that way at all??

The machine actually grabs your card and the LCD readout tells you to wait.

Such a simple engineering / user-interface FAIL. WTF, City of Seattle?

Rev.Enant asked in Cars & Motorcycles about 1 year ago | Report

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Well you insert it, and then (at a later time) remove it quickly.

NGC1275 answered in Cars & Motorcycles about 1 year ago | Report

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