— I wonder if it will handle a 1958 Cadillac Fleetwood. I doubt it.
Journal Gazette | 02/05/2007 | Robots hit the spot — FYI
NEW YORK – Would you trust a robot to park your car?The question will confront New Yorkers this month as the city’s first robotic parking opens in Chinatown.
The technology has had a good track record overseas, but the only other public robotic garage in the United States has been troublesome, dropping vehicles and trapping cars because of technical glitches.
found by Tom Bemis
dropping vehicles and trapping cars because of technical glitches
What? I kept my car in one of these in Rio de Janeiro 30 years ago! And they’ve been working perfectly here (Spain) for decades too! What’s wrong with the US?
dropping vehicles and trapping cars because of technical glitches
What? I kept my car in one of these in Rio de Janeiro 30 years ago! And they’ve been working perfectly here (Spain) for decades too! What’s wrong with the US? This is hardly rocket science, after all.
1. “What’s wrong with the US? This is hardly rocket science, after all.”
I wondered the same thing. Our cars and trucks are certainly bigger. And of course our workmanship is crappier.
Did you read the article #1. I would be very supprised if this technology existed 30 years ago. Multi level parking I would believe.
I would be very supprised if this technology existed 30 years ago.
Be surprised, then – it certainly did exist – and it worked just fine.
Geez…when I was a kid growing up in Reno, Nevada, there was a mechanical “pigeon hole” parking garage. This was built in the late 50’s and was in operation until the late 70’s. It worked like a champ, and everyone marveled at it.
The only drawback, was…if you drank too much and gambled too poorly to afford a motel room, you couldn’t climb in your car to “sleep it off”…as they wouldn’t return your car if you were obviously intoxicated.
The technology is not new.
Sounds like I am wrong. The mechanics of such a garage seem plausable, even back to the 1930s or 40s. I am just suprised that the computer controlled aspect which they are describing, automaticly measuring the size of the car and such, existed in the 1970s.
I would have expected a person would have needed to operate the system back then.
The technology has improved and become more subtle since the 70s but it’s been around a long time.
It’s like optical discs read by lasers have been around since the 70s… they didn’t have DVDs though.
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Here’s some history… Perhaps you can provide us with a link to some info on the automatic garage in Rio de Janeiro.
I don’t see any technical glitches since robotics has come a long way.
I trust this service over the grease balls that park the cars in conventional garages.
That Cadillac sounds like a sweet car.
They had these twenty years ago in Japan. I don’t remember hearing of any damaged cars (but they are smaller than in the US by half)
The system I saw was fairly simple — more like a ferris wheel but shaped like a tank track so that there is less wasted space in the center.
To get your vehicle, they just rotate the cars until yours pops out like a big Pez!
The space advantage is huge.
If you are interested in seeing an actual “Pigeon Hole Parking” garage from the 1950’s as well as the mechanism itself and the history behind it, check out Pigeon Hole Parking. These were amazing technological marvels and worked smoothly.