I remember there being a huge controversy over a similar app! The founder tried to force itself into a bunch of cities and proceeded to get into a direct conflict with a mayor of Boston!<p><a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2014/07/15/haystack/ceD8Rcmz2PRd39Gp58gwhO/story.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2014/07/15/haystack/ceD...</a><p>Edit: I also think these apps were covered in detail in 99% Invisible, it was almost a decade ago, so maybe US citizens have finally become domesticed enough to accept the privatization of public parking<p><a href="https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/episode-08-99-free-parking/" rel="nofollow">https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/episode-08-99-free-pa...</a>