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."

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Re:Not Really New

[QuickFox]

(Moderators who feel that this is off-topic, it's not, wait and see.)

I think most of us Europeans see it more or less as you described. Except we get the impression that not only your politicians but also your media lie, persistently and to a disastrous extent. This is extremely worrying, since you democracy can't exist without calm debate based on truth.

We certainly don't hate or despise Americans, on the contrary, we tend to see you as respected friends and allies. I get the impression that some of your media make it look like we hate you, by holding forth fringe Europeans who do, but the mainstream people certainly don't. Your shocking re- election of Bush did make quite a dent in our confidence, but that dent is very, very far from hatred or despise. (Most assume that he was re-elected by the American people and not by Diebold.)

However, I must mention -- and I mention this only to ward off the dreaded off-topic mod -- I must mention that we feel that your extreme use of private cars wouldn't be this extreme were it not for the above-mentioned media lies, in this case lies about climate change; and that because of this extreme usage, any parking problems that you may have are self-inflicted and well-deserved. With this masterly twist at the very end, this entire rant becomes nicely on-topic.

Re:Not Really New

[Lars T.]

Only months after suffering a horrible terrorist attack, the Spaniards elected a leftist terrorist appeaser who immediately pulled all Spanish troops out of Afghanistan AND Iraq. Europeans are cowards, trolls, and will have to pull the huge planks out of their eyes before pointing at the speck in a Yankee's. Only months after suffering a horrible terrorist attack, the Spaniards kicked out the government who had lied to them about who the terrorists were. Gee, looks like they are smarter than you after all.