Hacker News Reader

Comment by doodlesdev | Hacker News Reader

   > robotic garages are everywhere

Robotic WHAT? That's crazy, if it's what I'm imagining. Is Tokyo that much crowded?

View on HN

You park your car in a stall, get out of your car, and then the stall closes and it moves a platform under your car and stores it someplace. You punch in your claim number, pay your parking fee, and then it gets your car and puts it back in the stall.

They're in places other than Tokyo as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6blks7vfZog

One was featured in the old Fast and Furious: Tokyo Drift movie. That was probably the first time I had seen one, about 20 years ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHAkCLk6wP8

Way back there was a news story about one of those, in which the owner didn't pay the licence fee for the software, so the software company bricked their parking garage with loads of people's cars inside.

City of Hoboken, NJ. Plenty of more recent stories about Hoboken using robots, so I guess it didn't put them off.

Oh yeah, here it is: https://m.slashdot.org/story/70742

(Edited to add: that account is disputed, in some accounts the city stopped maintainers working on it without realising it wouldn't keep working)

That's crazy awesome... I wish I'd had use for one where I live just to test it out LOL

It’s not some Japan-only technology. You see them in New York City too.

20 years ago https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHAkCLk6wP8

https://roboticparking.com/how-it-works/

...as one example.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com