Cool article about robotic garages, fully-automated parking structures. You drive your car onto a pallet and the computer does the rest, whisking your car away and moving it into an empty stop. Because humans don\’t go inside the garages, they don\’t need exhaust ventilation systems, elevators, stairs, or fire doors. There\’s also no ramps and the aisles are probably narrower too. As a result, automated garages can park far more cars into a compact space. There\’s only 2 in the US right now, in Hoboken, N.J. and Washington D.C. They should make them with glass walls: I wanna see these things in action.
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