Robotic Parking Garage

• Anita
  January 29th, 2007 at 10:05 pm

  I almost put this on my humor site … the article has a pretty funny description of the U.S.’s only other automated garage:

  “Another company had built the only other public robotic garage in the United States, the one with a checkered past.

  Built in 2002 across the river in Hoboken, N.J., with 314 spaces for monthly rentals only, the garage dropped an unoccupied Cadillac Deville six floors in 2004 and a Jeep four stories the following year. Early last year, a malfunction that went unrepaired for 26 hours trapped cars inside.”

  I’ll be sure to wait in line to have my car parked there!

• rrolff
  January 30th, 2007 at 12:22 am

  YTou beat me to it Anita

  apparently the company who sold the software to the Hoboken Parking garage was not fully paid and stopped updating the software regularly causing the malfunction….

  http://parkingtoday.typepad.com/parking_blog/2006/08/is_the_automate.h tml

  so the lesson to NYC is you can fire a human w/o pay but you cant fire a computer system w/o paying first….good luck

• MrWong
  January 30th, 2007 at 3:54 am

  There’s a fully automatic parking garage in use in Munich/Germany too. It holds up to 284 cars…

  http://www.muenchen.de/Rathaus/bau/projekte/tg_donnersberger/170710/in dex.html

• yayo
  January 30th, 2007 at 2:59 pm

  So… When the car gets stuck you kick the machine?…

  And sometimes two fall through the ramp?

  ^g^

• Mary Sue
  January 30th, 2007 at 4:33 pm

  I was in Japan in 2001 and they had these things EVERYWHERE. I wondered how long it would take for them to get to the US. Guess I got my answer.

• five_fingers
  January 31st, 2007 at 1:15 pm

  Another Hoboken at wired.

  http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,71554-0.html

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