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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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... 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.
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.
I'm looking forward to Parting Attendant 3.0.
A hairdressing robot?
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.