Home Parking Dream!
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The only thing I don't understand is if the car has been delivered by autonalift™ to your windows "pseudo-garage", how does the lift retrieve the floorplate which the car has never left?
Is the sequence shortened (moreso than the video lets on), and actually the first stage is to call the lift to retrieve your empty floorplate from your apartment? If so that takes far too long!
Is the sequence shortened (moreso than the video lets on), and actually the first stage is to call the lift to retrieve your empty floorplate from your apartment? If so that takes far too long!
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I'd assume the floor plates are interchangeable and there are spares floating around the system. When the car leaves the garage the plate is replaced, and as it arrives at your flat the floor plate that was in place there is removed and pushed out to a queue...
Would be a bit of a nightmare getting your car out in the morning though, not convinced the system could take more than one car at a time per cycle so you'd end up in a huge queue
Would be a bit of a nightmare getting your car out in the morning though, not convinced the system could take more than one car at a time per cycle so you'd end up in a huge queue
But no ****** poking around your fancy motor, no other idiots to worry about banging your doors etc...plus the willy waving.
I'd got for it if I had the money!
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I'm pretty sure that any building considering putting a car lift in would have some serious security measures to keep out said ****** already.
Oh sure...but the other numpties parked next to you in the exclusive garage? Nothing to keep them out!
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I am sure they probably have daily run about's downstairs as well. Great idea though.
Oh sure...but the other numpties parked next to you in the exclusive garage? Nothing to keep them out!
Again though, any building where the lowest cost apartment is £6m is going to have parking spaces that are suitably large.
I wouldn't count on that! I've had occasion to park in some of these exclusive underground car parks under expensive London apartments and I can assure you that spaces (including space to turn etc) were in no way large, and if anything slightly tighter than you might expect to find in a typical supermarket car park.
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I'd assume the same number of floor plates exist in the system as garage spaces, in addition no floor plate is permanently assigned to one parking space, so what you've got is a huge floating storage of occupied and free floor plates, the free ones could end up in any parking space.
Now looking at the video you only have storage space for one free floor plate (on the ground floor garage bit you first drive your car onto), so I’d assumed that above ground level parking spaces exist with floor plates in them, but without cars on them.
That's unless once removed your car from your parking space a holding pen exists on the ground floor which allows the storage of multiple plates.
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It's essentially the same technology used in the robotic parking systems.
I like the idea, like a big display cabinet for cars in your house
It's all fun and games until one catches fire on the 40th floor.
If we could park the car in the living room, we could work in it in the Winter, and also watch TV whilst we do it!