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Move my car pings

What the ping does when a vehicle is blocking you in, what it leaves out on purpose, and how to use it without making things worse.

3 min read · Updated October 27, 2026

A vehicle parked across a gate, a lane or a driveway is one of the daily annoyances of Indian roads. If it carries an ATAP sticker, there is a quieter way to reach its owner than leaning on the horn. This guide explains how the move ping works and how to use it well.

  1. Scan the sticker on the vehicle that is in your way. The report page opens with its plate already filled in.
  2. Tap Ask the owner to move it. There is no photo to take and nothing to type.
  3. The owner gets an email, and a notification on their phone if they turned notifications on. It says the vehicle may be blocking someone.
  4. The message carries no photo, no place and no name. Nothing is added to the vehicle's record, because a ping is not a report.
  5. One ping per vehicle in 10 minutes. A second tap in that time tells you the owner was alerted a moment ago.
A ping in five parts. The crossed out symbols are what it never carries.

When the button is there

The button shows on the report page only when you arrived by scanning an ATAP sticker. If you opened the page by typing the address, there is no sticker to ping, so there is no button.

What the owner gets

A short message that asks them to move the vehicle if they can. It says in so many words that it is not a report.

Because it is not a report, it does not appear in the owner's list of reports and it counts towards nobody's recognition points. The owner learns that someone needs the space. They learn nothing about who.

What you see after you tap

  • The owner has been alerted. The message went out.
  • The owner was alerted a moment ago. Someone pinged in the last 10 minutes, perhaps you. Wait.
  • This vehicle's owner is not on ATAP yet, so nobody could be alerted. We tell you so, and do not pretend otherwise.
  • We could not reach the owner right now. Try again in a minute.

Using it well

  1. Look around first. The driver may be in the shop next door.
  2. Ping once, then wait a few minutes. The owner has to see an email or a notification, and that takes longer than a shout.
  3. Do not keep tapping. The page will say an alert went out a moment ago, and extra taps only use up the limit on how many one phone can send.
  4. Keep it civil when the owner turns up. They were sent a polite message and may not have known they were in the way.

Why there is no photo

A ping is a request, not an accusation. If we sent a photo it would be a report in all but name, and an owner reading it would feel accused before they looked up. Keeping the message plain means it can be read with a clear head. It also means a ping cannot be used to build a file on someone.

What we keep

We keep that a ping was sent for a vehicle, which sticker it came through, when, and whether it was delivered. We do not keep who sent it. The limits on how many pings one phone can send are counted with scrambled codes that are cleared out as they expire.

These records are deleted 90 days after the ping. They hold no name, photo or place.

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