Was a technology shocker to me.

[ZeeBabar]

I drove into the Mbay parking lot in a rental car a few days ago, morning time. I took the ticket to park, walked around the casino and only 8 deckers were open that early (a DD game was in the HL room but the minimum of $100 was beyond me) so I started walking back to my car, remembered that with an M life card, I dont have to pay for parking. The Mlife desk was just opening and I went and got a card (a Pearl card as I had left mine at hotel). I walked back to the car and as I pulled up to the exit barrier, the barrier opened without my having inserted the card.

I was puzzled, was staring at the barrier (night cme down on car?) but the security guard said it recognized your licence plate as a card member.

How? Since I entered the garage anonymously in a rental car. I then went and got a card and returned to my car. Still puzzled.

 

[DSchles]

I drove into the Mbay parking lot in a rental car a few days ago, morning time. I took the ticket to park, walked around the casino and only 8 deckers were open that early (a DD game was in the HL room but the minimum of $100 was beyond me) so I started walking back to my car, remembered that with an M life card, I dont have to pay for parking. The Mlife desk was just opening and I went and got a card (a Pearl card as I had left mine at hotel). I walked back to the car and as I pulled up to the exit barrier, the barrier opened without my having inserted the card.

I was puzzled, was staring at the barrier (night cme down on car?) but the security guard said it recognized your licence plate as a card member.

How? Since I entered the garage anonymously in a rental car. I then went and got a card and returned to my car. Still puzzled.

I can think of two possibilities: 1) On the application for the card, you had to put the license of your car; or b) the card has a chip in it that triggers the barrier in the parking lot.

Don

 

[Meistro]

Are you still in Vegas ZeeBabar? Hopefully your trip has been going better.

 

[sagefr0g]

a technology shocker ehh? think back to deep blue and a host of other AI, and other technological baby steps.
there s another topic on this site about is blackjack still viable.
now ponder AI vs AP.
the question sooner or later becomes, is AP viable far as the future goes.
me, i guess i'm lucky far as AP goes as i'm nearing phasing out just as the future looms apparently ominously darkly.
just me maybe, but just as it seems a viable natural world environment is healthier as a result of all the living creatures in it, so it may be that the joints as they become ever more successful at killing off AP, shall unwittingly put an end to their own existence.

 

[johndoe]

I can think of two possibilities: 1) On the application for the card, you had to put the license of your car; or b) the card has a chip in it that triggers the barrier in the parking lot.

Don

Unless they went through extraordinary methods, RFID card readers don't have that kind of range. Most likely someone else rented that car who was a cardholder. Or the system was broken, and allowed everyone through.

 

[gronbog]

My daughter's condo has a gate controlled by a RFID token. She never needs to remove it from her purse. The gate opens when she drives up close enough. Same with the garage door.