Parking in San Francisco and New York can be a challenge, often leading to overpayment or parking tickets due to expired meters. A proposed solution, humorously presented as an April Fools' joke, involves the integration of smartphone technology with parking meters, allowing drivers to receive alerts before their meter time expires and add time remotely via an app called ParkingDuty. This system, suggested by PagerDuty and supposedly in collaboration with the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA), would automate ticketing by sending virtual tickets directly to smartphones and offering a brief leniency period. The initiative, presented as a pilot program launching in June 2014, aims to benefit both drivers and SFMTA by rewarding proactive behavior and generating revenue from expired spaces.