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Inside a Mechanical Parking Garage

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the at-least-the-valet-isn't-joyriding dept.

poisedleft writes "Slate has this article about a mechanical parking garage in DC. 'Despite the undeniable Jetsons cachet of the robo-garage, the Summit Grand Parc went automatic only because it had to. A 60-foot-by-106-foot lot behind the building, the only land available for a conventional garage, couldn't hold more than 14 spaces.' One potential problem for suffering city dwellers: long lines at rush hour."

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  1. Cars are big problems in the first place by modder · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    I'll get modded down for this, but here goes:

    I've never owned a car in my life. I can't drive due to a medical condition. I've managed to get around using public transportation here in the US. Other countries have better systems of public transport.

    Cars are a very dangerous form of transportation. We need better ways of addressing these issues. From the article, we have developed ridiculously complicated ways of dealing with part of the problem. Storing the cars. Other parts of the problem include traffic. (When will automated devices begin to lift cars onto seperate freeways or freeway lanes, in order to help traffic congestion?) Then there's the oil thing. But no one wants to use electric cars. I guess "hybrids" are a tiny baby step in the right direction.

    When you have to drive 90 minutes from an area you can afford, into an area where you are employed, there is a serious problem and the fancy automobile is not the answer. (apparently public transit isn't the answer either the way it currently works. Some people in california drive 3 hours to get to work.)

    So we are able to store the beasts in a way in which they could not be stored before, and the motivation was lack of space... Something is wrong here.

  2. Not with MY Mercedes ! by pair-a-noyd · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    1. Thou shalt keep thy filthy shitrakes of my Mercedes.
    2. Thou shalt know and worship commandment 1.

    Also, did anyone look at the link to the Wohr site? Look at the picture. Someones piece of shit, dripping oil, transmission fluid, anti-freeze, etc. on your car from above? I think f*cking not. And not even a parking attendant to beat up on when the robots mangle your car.

    This is a guarnateed ruinded paint job at best and a trip to the body shop to replace some crushed in fenders and quarter panels..

    This is a CRAP idea and I would NEVER put my car in one of these.. Never..