It’d make a perfect single Kraft Single holder, think about it.

Alright, alright, alright, alright, alright, alright!

He can’t hear you!

The article literally addesses this, citing sources.

I don’t know, it seems like a fairly minimalist OS.

I suspect that some paid places use automated license plate readers to check for non-payment, or could be checking manually but having all the cars front-in could still save the manual checker the labor of walking around cars.

edit: In recent years I’ve actually been in parking garages and seen seen a hapless security guard walking car to car, photographing the back of each one. (I’ve also seen ‘meter-readers’ doing the same thing in paid street parking areas.) I wouldn’t be surprised if a car-mounted version also existed, which is what I meant when I speculated about automation.

The problem with this (I would imagine) is that that thieves these days are probably savvy enough to look for and disable a phone ASAP, paired with phones being big enough that you can’t exactly hide one in a bag like you can with something AirTag-sized.