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Offline KohanbashTopic starter

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Parking Garages
« on: February 05, 2007, 02:26:23 PM »
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16876282/

An article about robotic parking garages.
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Re: Parking Garages
« Reply #1 on: February 06, 2007, 03:06:30 PM »
Why dont the garages just park over the cars? Would be a lot easier.
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Re: Parking Garages
« Reply #2 on: February 06, 2007, 04:47:24 PM »
yea these are pretty cool, I saw some of the rotating kind when I was in japan.
my friend had his car stuck on the top level one time, so they had to rotate
through a whole bunch of cars, it took like 5 min. I was still impressed but
he seemed a bit put off that his was put on top. :-\

The think about the software company and licensing....that's a load of BS
another one of the many reasons gpl is a better than proprietary in the
public (E.G. non military) domain

« Last Edit: February 06, 2007, 04:53:14 PM by JesseWelling »
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Re: Parking Garages
« Reply #3 on: February 06, 2007, 05:39:32 PM »
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Clarke at Robotic Parking Systems said demand for robotic parking is booming in the country after long lagging behind other developed countries.

i live in new zealand and it is considered a developed country and i never even heard of such a thing!!!!!
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Re: Parking Garages
« Reply #4 on: February 06, 2007, 09:44:25 PM »
for those who saw Tokyo Drift (that car racing moving where the cars 'drift' around in Japan), they had a robot garage in it for a good like 2 minutes of footage.

it really doesnt matter if you live in a developed country . . . in most cases robot garages are more expensive per parking space than regular garages . . . only when land is super crazy expensive, such as in tokyo, or NY, will it be cheaper than the traditional parking garage (because it requires less land) . . .
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Re: Parking Garages
« Reply #5 on: February 06, 2007, 11:32:07 PM »
..............or down down Kumamoto City, in Kyushu. Which is kinda like having a robotic parking garage in Texas....... ::)
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