Parkswaping - Provisional Patent Pending
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Parkswap Your Public Curbside Parking Space
Division of RentMyCar.com – March 17, 2011
How many times have you traveled to the City or Town and you had to circle around the block looking for a free public curbside parking space? How many times have you located a curbside parking space to only have someone in front of you take it before you could? What if you could just pull out your mobile phone and reserve a public curbside parking space before you got there?
Parkswap.com will allow you to utilize your mobile phone to view local public curbside parking spaces and pay a small fee to have the current car parked there moved for you by the owner for a few hours or days. Although a public parking space is NOT individually owned by any single person, a person parked in a public curbside parking space has a legal right to remain in that parking space until they are legally required to move the car. e.g. They must move the car for street cleaning or non-parking hours. However, the majority of these car owners would sit in their cars and wait for the street cleaning truck to pass by and they would then park the car in the same public curbside space. Car owners in the City would do this for weeks and months at a time, which prevents other drivers from accessing those public parking spaces. ParkSwap would allow these car owners to agree to voluntarily give up those public parking spaces for a fee. Furthermore, a driver who parks at a curbside parking space temporarily may agree to give up that spot to another driver for a fee. Thus, there would be NO need to drive around looking for a curbside parking space. Simply search, book and parkswap.
There appears to be NO laws that would prohibit these car owners from voluntarily AGREEING to move their cars from a public curbside parking space upon demand and for a fee. In the alternative, these car owners will continue to park their cars in those public curbside parking spaces for weeks or even months at a time. Thus, Parkswap creates a new and novel business method that allows for public curbside parking space swapping for a fee. This would help to releases thousands of public parking spaces being held by a local resident, it helps car owners pay for the cost of their cars, it helps the environment by reducing fossil fuel emissions caused by driving around looking for a parking space and it creates jobs by allowing car owners to intentionally reserve parking spaces for other drivers instead of parking in them for weeks or months at a time. For example, a tractor trailer moving people in or out of an apartment in the City can purchase a few hours of parking space from local resident car owners. Once the tractor trailer no longer needs the parking spaces, the cars return to the same parking spaces as they do when the street cleaning truck passes by.
Therefore, the public curbside parking space is NOT being rented out; but instead, the AGREEMENT TO RELEASE the parking space for a few hours or days when someone is NOT legally required to do so is the BENEFIT that is being bargained for under the Parkswap business method.