Robotic Parking Garage

Posted by Anita in Car & Vehicle on January 29, 2007 at 10:02 pm


Robotic parking garage

A fully automated basement parking garage is slated to be unveiled in New York City’s Chinatown this February. This garage will cram 67 cars into a volume typically occupied by only 24 cars in a traditional garage. Via San Francisco Chronicle.

I’m just waiting for New York to build parking garages like Volkswagen’s storage facility in Germany [Neatorama].


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6 comments to "Robotic Parking Garage"

  1. 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! ;)

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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^

  5. 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.

  6. 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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