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Parking Attendant 2.0

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the i-wonder-what-an-suv-falling-six-stories-sounds-like dept.

theodp writes "Would you trust a robot to park your car? That's the question facing New Yorkers as the city's first robotic parking garage opens in Chinatown. With new software and enough laser and radar sensors to make Fort Knox jealous, it's believed that the new facility — which can squeeze 67 cars in space that would otherwise hold only 24 — will not suffer the kind of glitches that caused the nation's first robotic garage in nearby NJ to drop and trap cars."

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  1. Re:Not Really New by QuickFox · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I remember using one in Nagoya in 1989. They are not new technology at all. Come on, we're dealing with Americans here, people who believe war is a solution to everything, even to terrorism. No need to embarrass them further by rubbing their nose in how backward they are.
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