Comments on: Robotic Parking Garage

By: five_fingers

five_fingers — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 18:15:37 +0000

Another Hoboken at wired.

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

By: Mary Sue

Mary Sue — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 21:33:28 +0000

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.

By: yayo

yayo — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 19:59:40 +0000

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

And sometimes two fall through the ramp?

^g^

By: MrWong

MrWong — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 08:54:59 +0000

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

By: rrolff

rrolff — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 05:22:37 +0000

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

By: Anita

Anita — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 03:05:05 +0000

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!