Drivers leave notes telling the tenants where to find packages, Ms. Godwin said.
Drivers leave their cars outside petrol stations, waiting for the day they might reopen.
One is that drivers leave something they need next to the child — a purse or cellphone, for example.
But when drivers leave their desks and slip behind the wheel, they expect to be done with technical support for the day.
Though the specter of a possible resale market was raised at a hearing last month, officials expressed little concern about its potential ramifications, particularly because most drivers leave only a pittance's worth of parking time on their receipts.
Two free parking lots, located at 230 TC Jester or Lot H at the southwest corner of Houston and Memorial Drive, let drivers leave their cars overnight without getting towed.
According to the complaint filed in Los Angeles federal court, carbon monoxide is emitted when drivers leave their vehicles running after taking their electronic key fobs with them, under the mistaken belief that the engines will shut off.
Ms. Fennell would like federal law to require automakers to include sensors in cars that would do two things: beep if drivers leave a passenger in the back of the car and, more fundamentally, beep to remind drivers to make sure that backseat passengers are buckled up in the first place.
