Friday, September 09, 2005

Smart P - Reinvention of Car Parking

Smart PA 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.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

This already exists in Japan.

Anonymous said...

Yea...What an innovative idea!
Chicago parking tower

Anonymous said...

I'd just rather have a mini one of these for my model cars.

Anonymous said...

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?

A Bump on a Blog said...

They stole this from an old MAD magazine!

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