Sleeping in a car isn't illegal necessarily, but there are increasing popup communities that settle in empty/low traffic lots and live out of their vehicles. Like most of America's problems, our politicans are sending police forces to "clean up" the effect, instead of trying to solve the cause.

Here's an article on Vehicle Residency https://www.thenation.com/article/society/homelessness-vehicle-residency-housing/

[–] Killing_Spark@feddit.de 0 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Sleeping in your car in public is not allowed in Germany either

[–] lens17@feddit.de 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Afaik it is allowed as long as its only to regain your driving capabilities and not for multiple nights I'm a row on the same place. The Straßenverkehrsordnung does not state otherwise.

[–] shawwnzy@lemmy.world 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Interesting, I've been told that it's illegal to sleep in your car in Canada when drunk because being in a car with possession of the keys is enough to show intent to DUI and get arrested.

I imagine it's something you could fight in court and win with a good lawyer, but it always seemed counter intuitive to me.

[–] lens17@feddit.de 0 points 6 months ago

Simple solution: sleep on the back seats if drunk.

[–] agressivelyPassive@feddit.de 0 points 6 months ago

I think that's the kind of law that never gets enforced.

Also, I'm 90% sure the homeless population and the car owning population have very little overlap in Germany.