Vending Machine For Cars

Brooklyn is about to get a 697 car underground parking lot, where the cars are delivered to their spaces by a robotic system, and put in slots like post office boxes while you are away from the car (see video below).  Popular Mechanics Magazine has the story in the October 2013 issue, but it is not yet on-line.   It is a miracle of ingenuity, and is a proven system as well.  It stores several times the number of cars in the same cubic footage that a conventional garage does.  And – the big news – the garage industry averages “one insurable incident per 100 cars”.   This automated garage, in testing elsewhere, has parked 300,000 cars without a single “insurable incident”.  It will be ready in 2016 (why so long was not explained).

It will save or improve the following:   Just this one garage !!!

1.      250,000 cars in and out are projected – per year

2.      will eliminate 250,000 miles of driving, annually

3.      will save 152 metric tons of CO-2 emissions annually

4.      will save 17,000 gallons of fuel annually

5.      reduce “insurable incidents” from 2,500 a year to zero  compared to conventional underground garages.

6.      save many hours of time that patrons would otherwise spend walking and riding elevators to get out of conventional underground parking  -- with this, they exit very close to when they pull in the garage.

Motion sensors and other devices make sure no humans are in the cars when they are “parked” in their post-office type boxes.

“It’s very much like a vending machine for cars” says Ari Milstein, Executive director of AutoMotion.

http://www.automotionparking.com/  watch the video , choose full screen option.