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American here. I had to say a mailbox was a parking meter yesterday to satisfy one of these terrible things. Your measurement of success may be biased by user acceptance of incorrect information in the process.

And as a non-American, I neither know nor care what American parking meters look like in the first place. They're training their model on my model of their model

This would be a reCAPTCHA: there were no parking meter questions running on hCaptcha yesterday, from a quick check.

Considering how horrifically broken hCaptcha is, slapping your hand on the keyboard would have an equivalent solve rate. I've had hCaptchas where one of the images was virtually identical to the example and it still didn't count as one.

It's very much an issue with hCaptcha as well. I have to frequently identify US parking meters that I only vaguely know from Hollywood movies.

maybe because when i see one i dont even bother