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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."

2 of 379 comments (clear)

  1. Misleading Headline by Average_Joe_Sixpack · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I thought Al Gore had taken up a new occupation

  2. Obligatory Transformer qutoe by PIPBoy3000 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    "These fools worship Transformers!"
    -- Astrotrain, reading a.t.t. ("The God Gambit")

    You'll find more ironically amusing ones here