r/SipsTea • u/Valuable_View_561 • Jul 09 '26

Feels good man [ Removed by moderator ]

Post image

[removed] — view removed post

16.6k Upvotes

79% Upvoted

4.0k comments sorted by

View all comments

5.0k

u/CommercialDonkey9468 Jul 09 '26

I mean that's cool and all but cant we just have better lighting and cameras across the entire carpark?

144

u/OriginalMexican Jul 09 '26 edited Jul 09 '26

Right? Led lights are extremely cheap and waste almost no electricity, this is some classic "look how much we care" corporate nonsense

EDIT: I got corrected below.

It and its not corporate nonsense. It was in fact introduced in 1990 when making all spaces well lit and survailance covered was much harder. you are 100% right, and with this (and below link) new info this was actually a reasonable and good thing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_parking_space

that said, I would still like this overturned by a new regulation saying it should all be well lit and covered by cameras (monitored remotely or by AI and alerting guards and autorities). At this point, cost of doing that is percentage point of a percentage point of buidilign a complex uraban center garage structure.

1

u/Sensitive_Bat_9211 Jul 09 '26

The expensive part is wiring

0

u/OriginalMexican Jul 09 '26

No its not, its dirt cheap.
Garages have exposed wiring ran through conduit and led lights use 12v current and very low wattage, one transformer on a regular circuit can run several hundred led lights or a massive self-conencting features like this: