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

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

  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. 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...