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Old Nov 4, 2014 | 9:33 am
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Originally Posted by tmiw
Speaking of replacing terminals, my city is replacing all the parking meters with ones that can take cards. From what I can tell they only take Visa and MasterCard, no Amex or Discover. The brochure for the meters (warning: PDF) mentions smart card for payment and shows a contactless icon, but they don't mention anything about EMVco approval so they may be magstripe only.
San Francisco has the same meters. They have chip readers, but they're only used for prepaid parking cards. I was asked to swipe my EMV-enabled Citi card.
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