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Luckily I don't live in the states. So the jail time or large fines do not scare me. Your app however tells people it's okay to park in front of people's driveways cause we'll just text them right? Also how are you planning on monetizing this? Are you actually going to make money off the misery of others by telling them it's okay to park wherever they want? Imagine my wife has a seizure, some guy with your sticker parks in front of my driveway and I can't rush her to the hospital in time. Can you AND the driver be held responsible for this in court? Since your app clearly condones illegal parking behavior. The rules are simple, if you park somewhere where you shouldn't you will get towed. Maybe you should make an anti-rape app too? The victim can just text the abuser letting him know of his mistake.
censormuch, I think you're missing a key point. No where does CurbTXT say they promote, excuse or "condone" illegal parking practices. It's simply a communication tool for notifying car owners of ANY issues with their vehicle. You can of course always tow if someone blocks your driveway. By using CurbTXT, you are not granted any immunity from parking violations, but you are allowing people to contact you directly. It is simply giving them a choice in how they make contact. If you are abusing the use of CurbTXT by say perpetually or indiscriminately parking wherever you want, you most likely will be towed, CurbTXT sticker or not.
However, if you happen to have left your lights on, or forgot to rotate your tires when on a hill, any neighbor can help you out with a friendly reminder. Other benefits would allow people to contact you if they noticed your car was being vandalized (by say someone keying your car).
Of course, CurbTXT isn't for everyone. And it doesn't look like it's offered outside of the States anyway, so fret not, you won't need to worry about helping or being helped by neighbors anytime soon.
Most people violate parking regulations by mistake - and would prefer to avoid being ticketed or towed.
CurbTXT lets your neighbors contact you regarding any issue with your vehicle - whether it's your fault or not. Like if someone smashed your car window.
Hope this clears things up,
Andrew at CurbTXT (info@curbtxt.com)
I'd say when I've done it, it's been about 50/50 on the lazy asshole/unknowingly split. Am I particularly bad on this? (It's been rare in general, I've got to add--maybe once every year or two).
Good question tvjunky. By registering your car - you allow your neighbors to contact you immediately regarding issues with your vehicle. So if you were to mistakenly block a neighbors' driveway - they could CurbTXT you to move your car rather than have you towed.
An "F-bomb laced note" wouldn't allow your neighbor to pull out of their driveway.
Registering for CurbTXT also allows your neighbors let you know if you're about to get ticketed for street cleaning, if you've left your lights on by mistake, if someone's smashed your window, etc.
Hope this clears things up,
Andrew at CurbTXT (info@curbtxt.com)
I think you have something here but it still seems a bit cart before the horse. The presumption is that we all want to be excellent to each other. In my experience when people are being rude it's more often a conscious choice rather than an inadvertent mistake. Granted, I don't live in an area where residents have to battle or shuffle around for parking and neighbors will be "neighborly" and register. However, during events with large numbers of people from outside the neighborhood, we often see rude behavior. In these cases there is no opportunity alert the offender of their "mistake". We either must be proactive to guard our parking or start a a tow truck parade to coincide with the event.
We take inappropriate messages very seriously at CurbTXT and have mechanisms in place for immediately blocking the sender and flagging the message for review.
To send a CurbTXT, just text your message - starting with the plate # (and state abbreviation) to 415.529.5775.
For example: 'CA6EEJ475 left your lights on!'
Here at CurbTXT we take the potential for abuse very seriously. If at anytime a CurbTXT user receives an inappropriate message, they may block the sender permanently by replying with the command '#block'.
Thanks for your feedback - and feel free to contact me directly with any other thoughts or concerns.
SF-based startup called buzzbox (http://www.buzzbox.com) is another example of an attempt to apply personal relevance algorithms/heuristics to online news.
They take it a step further by trying to 'close the content loop' through automatically feeding users' personal news streams to others via a user-specific parallel twitter account (and an RSS feed).
kindof an interesting model - i had lunch with one of their marketing guys last week (a friend) - who mentioned his buzzbox twitter account had significantly more followers than he. curious now how many of those followers were follow-spammers though...
The beauty of Twitter is in its simplicity and in users' ability to completely personalize their account. I'm compelled to access my account because I know the sources of the content I'll find there were hand-selected by me and relevant to my unique interests.
I was under the assumption that most users have issues with following too MANY people and having trouble keeping up with 'the stream'. It could be argued that it's the fear of missing twitter updates that keeps people glued to the service (and other real-time status services). If such is the case, do users really need another way to clog up their stream and pull attention away from their real-life friend/family's updates - the ones that "really" matter?
While I could see the Lists concept being useful to new users who'd like a jumpstart into the 'twitterverse', doesn't Twitter already suggest popular twitterers to follow during account registration?
It seems to me that Twitter should be spending its time adding more languages/international support as well as figuring out how to better deal with spammers - instead of building new features that only select power-users will take advantage of and that will confuse more people than they benefit.
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