The Automated Parking Garage Is Coming
4th October 2013
Conventional parking garages are inefficient. They require ramps, driving lanes, room for doors to open and close, and significant chunks of concrete and metal between each level. AutoMotion Parking Systems, a builder of automated garages and the company behind the Brooklyn project, will do away with all of this, replacing those bulky and disorienting double helices with a half-dozen 200-foot-long bays, each lined on both sides with car-size cubbies stacked three to five high. Via five automated hoists, vehicles will be whisked on metal pallets from the entry rooms to their temporary homes and back again. “It’s like a vending machine for cars,” Ari Milstein, executive director of AutoMotion, says.
We have the technology.