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Smart P - Reinvention of Car Parking
by Steve
Friday, September 09, 2005
A Swiss design and engineering bureau called Skyline Innovations has developed a parking structure that it claims can park as many cars as a conventional parking structure in 1/4th of the space. They call it, "Smart P".It's effectively an automated parking valet.
You drive your car on to a platform. A computer scans it to determine its dimensions, and compares it to cars already parked on its various levels. It then finds a spot to store your car where it can maximize space. A lift captures your car, elevates it up to the assigned level, then rotates the car to the appropriate space. The whole thing is automated.
The bureau says a space occupying 20 meters by 20 meters can store up to 300 cars, making it much more profitable for companies to operate parking garages.
Skyline Innovations is now looking for organizations interested in doing business with them.
4 Comments:
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This already exists in Japan.
By , at 9/09/2005 06:27:00 PM
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Yea...What an innovative idea!
Chicago parking towerBy , at 9/10/2005 07:34:00 PM
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I'd just rather have a mini one of these for my model cars.
By , at 9/14/2005 05:33:00 AM
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I have a better solution: If everyone rode scooters there would be plenty of parking.
By thew way, where are those jet packs we were supposed to be flying around with by 1970?By , at 10/28/2006 10:48:00 PM
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