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Thank you for thinking about the safety of our neighbors.

May I ask whether you've considered the unique vehicles the parking enforcement agents use?

SFMTA is hard to miss in their 3-wheelers--believe it's the Westward Industries "GO-4" Interceptor. I may have a blind spot here (like someone with access to an armed drone fleet could have made use of the map?), but essentially all private citizens will see these unmistakable three-wheelers simply by opening their front doors or heading downtown. Or into most any neighborhood.

For others reading this besides you, what additional safety burden could be presented by this map which is absent simply with any of the 800,000 pairs of human eyeballs in SF? (Here to learn, no snark!)



The 800,000 pairs of human eyeballs aren't hooked up to a public real-time reporting system? Functionally, this is pretty different. Could argue either way.


The website enabled stalking individual city employees by their initials in real time.

If it just showed where the cars were, that would be much better. Although still questionable IMHO.


Loudly publishing the information at least got the city to stop quietly publishing the information.


You're not wrong. But serving it up on a silver platter in a pretty UI that got a lot of press was probably not necessary to make that happen.


Initial thought: That doesn’t sound great.

Thank you!




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