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].
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,71554-0.html
And sometimes two fall through the ramp?
^g^
http://www.muenchen.de/Rathaus/bau/projekte/tg_donnersberger/170710/index.html
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.html
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