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Hoboken, NJ vs. Giant Parking Robot

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the their-mouths-are-still-moving dept.

markwalling writes "Wired News is running a story about Hoboken, New Jersey's battles with robotic parking. A legal battle over the license had shut down the garage, essentially trapping hundreds of cars inside. Bill Coats has recommended that the parking garage be run off open source software: 'Vendees are going to become more sophisticated in the deals they enter into.' Coats even sees this as a driver of open source software. 'If you can get (open source software) you can't be shut down.' But that's harder to do in highly custom applications."

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  1. All Your Cars Are Belong To Us by Real+World+Stuff · · Score: 5, Funny

    Another great example for adopting F/OSS. Somene get on this. CARS WANT TO BE FREE!

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    1. Re:All Your Cars Are Belong To Us by rworne · · Score: 2, Funny

      Billly Gates: Over? Did you say "over"? Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when RIM extorted Blackberry? Hell no!
      Brickwall: RIM?
      rworne: Forget it, he's rolling.
      Billly Gates: And it ain't over now. 'Cause when the goin' gets tough...
      [thinks hard]
      Billly Gates: the tough get goin'! Who's with me? Let's go!

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  2. Other way around by MECC · · Score: 2, Funny

    FTP:the city of Hoboken had police escort the Robotic employees from the premises

    Isn't it the robots usually escorting the humans from the building...?

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    1. Re:Other way around by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      Isn't it the robots usually escorting the humans from the building...?

      We are the pusher police, we have come to save you from the terrible secrets of parking?

  3. Re:Not really by michael+path · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yes. Xenu has souls trapped at a garage in Hoboken, New Jersey.

    That's why the buff male aliens tried to banish the hot female aliens using the Continuum Transfunctioner in "Dude, Where's My Car?".

  4. Well, it has to be said by knightmad · · Score: 4, Funny

    I, for one, welcome our closed source car trapping Giant Robots overlords

  5. What giant parking robot? by 27,000 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Bait and switch! Bait and switch! It could have at least thrown a few cars around and eaten somebody, but no!

    Tokyo was never attacked by a software license, I'll bet.

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  6. Hoboken What? by zerOnIne · · Score: 4, Funny

    I initially read the title of the article as "Hoboken Ninja vs. Giant Parking Robot", which would have made a much more interesting story than the actual article. Who cares about legal battles? Give me real ultimate power!

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  7. Funny you should mention Transformers by dr_dank · · Score: 5, Funny

    With the optional plug-in, the garage can become Carparkatron, defender of Hoboken.

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  8. Re:Not really by nightsweat · · Score: 4, Funny

    This never would have happened if the city's citizens had used flying cars.

    What?

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  9. Re:should be easier by hotdiggitydawg · · Score: 4, Funny

    Anyone could open-source the software, but let's see them open souce the drivers! Gettit, drivers?

    Thankyou, thankyou, I'll be here all week, try the veal...

  10. I, Robot by icebones · · Score: 2, Funny

    So I guess the prediction of automated parking that was shown in "I, Robot" wasn't that far off after all.

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  11. My money is on by MrCopilot · · Score: 2, Funny
    My money is on Hoboken.

    Can you believe these freakin robots Tony?

    I dunno Frankie, Robot that big, must have huge balls.

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  12. Re:Analogy breakage by aardvarkjoe · · Score: 2, Funny

    And what do we learn from this whole thing?

    That argument via analogy is utterly pointless.

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