Parking Garage Of The Future

Spunk writes "Like something out of the Jetsons, this NYTimes article [no-reg link] describes a parking garage that automatically stores cars in a 3-dimensional grid, and retrieves them when you return. Europe and Asia have several already."

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Re:another solution

[Chilles]

You have this in/around a lot of city centres here in the Netherlands.
Shops, businesses and residents of a restricted area get a drive-in permit (for delivery) (and maybe one parking space) all public transport is allowed in (buses and cabs) and everybody else can park on the edge. Vehicles that are allowed in get a pass that unblocks the roads into and out of the system.
solid metal blocks block the roads and can sink down when needed, controlled from some control centre that you can call and by some automatic card system that I don't really know.

When the traffic get's more troublesome it's probably worth the trouble :)

Re:another solution

[flikx]

There's one problem with that. There are a lot of stairs and steep hills in my city, and my Suburban can crawl over more features while the bus takes the long way around. People don't realize how useful 4WD is in an urban environment.