This technology looks pretty amazing! If non disabled parkers' try to take up a disability spot then a hologram will come up a person in their wheelchair. Its a cool idea of solving the abuse of disable parking issue in Russia
That is brilliant! Whoever thought of this is a genius, but the likeness of ever seeing this technology in real life is very low unless you go to one of the very few places that use this. I imagine that this isn't cheap and nowadays, nobody is willing to spend any more money than the need to.
I'm really curious to see this in person. Wanna go to one of the parking spots without the disability placards and see how good it as at replicating me in a chair.
Wow...very effective, that people actually are made to think about their personal responsibility. Of course, Russian handicap stickers seem to be attached, not as easily abused by "transfer" to another car.
1) Cute, real cute. 2) Light isnt going to stop many people. 3) Technology might get stolen.
This is honestly a waste of money. If people have this kind of money to invest then they should directly coordinate something with the law. Instead of projecting cute little holograms whenever someone without a tag tries to park, use camera technology and take a picture of their license plate and send them a fine in the mail. After 3 offenses, mandate a trip to court. People will eventually stop being turds, if the cameras get stolen itll be a smaller lose, and this method will pay for itself.
If you're in America, it would be like E-Z pass for highway tolls.
I think it depends if fines can maybe fund the technology. Im sure there are many parking abusers who would appreciate the hefty fine!
Maybe something less expensive can be developed or something a little simpler but still effective.
I'm really pleased to see this because it looks like finally this issue is being taken seriously so things should begin to change and more efforts will be put into developing technology to face this problem...
I saw that video last night. Knowing how they did it the cost isn't very high. It uses a small computer like an Intel NUC and a web camera. The image is projected from a pico projector and lens that projects onto a screen of mist. All of that could be assembled and produced for under $500 if you can get the parts at true wholesale prices. Programming the software is harder than the whole hardware setup. A standard handicap parking sign costs around $350 to buy for a private parking lot, plus the install costs. The projector, webcam and NUC could be mounted to the back of a standard sign in a weather protected steel lockbox and run off a battery and solar.
If I had the programming skills I would start making them in the US.
This is honestly a waste of money. If people have this kind of money to invest then they should directly coordinate something with the law. Instead of projecting cute little holograms whenever someone without a tag tries to park, use camera technology and take a picture of their license plate and send them a fine in the mail. After 3 offenses, mandate a trip to court. People will eventually stop being turds, if the cameras get stolen itll be a smaller lose, and this method will pay for itself.
If you're in America, it would be like E-Z pass for highway tolls.
That's a good suggestion too. It's a much more aggressive approach but it'll work! Intersections with red light cameras have very few people running red lights compared to the intersections with no cameras so it'd work the same for these disability parking spot cameras.
I saw that video last night. Knowing how they did it the cost isn't very high. It uses a small computer like an Intel NUC and a web camera. The image is projected from a pico projector and lens that projects onto a screen of mist. All of that could be assembled and produced for under $500 if you can get the parts at true wholesale prices. Programming the software is harder than the whole hardware setup. A standard handicap parking sign costs around $350 to buy for a private parking lot, plus the install costs. The projector, webcam and NUC could be mounted to the back of a standard sign in a weather protected steel lockbox and run off a battery and solar.
If I had the programming skills I would start making them in the US.
Someone who knows how to buy the parts and assemble it can do so for however much you estimated but once someone starts manufacturing these kits for municipality use, they're going to easily charge thousands of dollars. Like you said, if a simple sign costs $350, do you think this technology would be available for $500? Let's mulitiply that amount by 10 to get to a more realistic figure when it comes to costs.