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$40 dollars a day or $5.50 an hour! I think will park my car myself. Most valets cost half that with tip included.

How can a 1.2 million dollar be feasible when you can hire or even create a valet company for fractions of the costs? I trust a human with my car over a robot at this point in time.

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Parking yourself isn't that much cheaper. Actually can be even more expensive than $40 a day and right now this robot is only cheaper because you get a special deal.

http://www.dus-parken.co.uk/parking-prices.html

If cost were similar I would use Ray. Don't like idea of having another person drive my car around...

Where do you live? There are plenty of places with expensive parking. Self parking in Sydney hit $50 after 3 hours.

parking under my building in the Sydney CBD is ~$85 a day, and checking the Sydney airport website, a days parking is $105

$40 a day is a pittance

At LAX the economy lot is $12 a day. If you park at one of the FlyAways and take the bus it's $4 a day.

This isn't really meant to compete with economy parking though, it is? Parking nearer the terminal at LAX is apparently $30 a day.

Atlanta, the most I pay for parking would be at a sporting event or concert where it's usually around $20 for the event. The only $40 or more parking would be at the airport.

You do realise that the article is about a parking system at an airport?

> I trust a human with my car over a robot at this point in time.

What do you imagine a robot is going to do? It will not steal your car, scratch it, over rev it, leave a bad smell, steal your small change.

Baby steps. We'll get there eventually.

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