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Parking Attendant 2.0
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."
Get me one so my wife can finally park her car normally!
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Reminds me of the scences from I, Robot that showed the immense automated car storage system. I'm looking forward to Parting Attendant 3.0.
Gee those Swiss are civilised. If the car park was outside an Australian casino the EULA would have to make you certify that you didn't leave your children in the car.
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You forgot...
In Soviet Russia, car parks you.
... did not trap cars due to technical malfunctions, but rather due to a contractual dispute. That sounds more like a "mob"otic garage...which can squeeze 67 cars in space that would otherwise hold only 24
The junk yards have been doing that for years.
I'm not sure I'd call it that civilized to keep your children alive while on car journeys...
Probably a Towers of Hanoi type problem. i.e. economically shifting other parked cars to liberate the one right at the back.
Oh, great. And when you park the 64th car the Universe ends.
You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike.
Commodore64_love: I don't comprehend people who're so frightened of death that they'll bankrupt themselves to stay alive
But if it's a virtual impossibility, it must have a finite improbability. Let's work out exactly how improbable, feed that into the drive and give it a cup of really hot tea.
"I think an etch-a-sketch with an ethernet port would beat IE7 in web standards compliance."
... automated parking garage and nobody is there to hear it, does it make a sound?
There are only 10 types of people in the world: Those who understand binary, and those who don't.
I think it's clear that robots won't take your car for a spin, won't move your seats and mirrors or smoke in your car. Unless of course Bender is already out there working for them.
to make Fort Knox jealous
You mean Fort Knox and jealous aren't the same person?
Repeat after me: There is no spoon.
Have you read my journal today?
There's a story by Calvin Trillin in the NYT about that... ( http://select.nytimes.com/search/restricted/articl e?res=F70810FE3C5B0C758EDDA80894DF404482 ).
The sad part is this quote: "The Advanced Parking Guidance System works only if the spot is six and a half feet longer than the car -- the sort of spot, in other words, that the average Manhattan parker comes upon about once every 14 or 15 years."
Waltz, nymph, for quick jigs vex Bud.
I think it's clear that robots won't take your car for a spin, won't move your seats and mirrors or smoke in your car.
... yet.