This is pretty amazing! Can you imagine how all this operates? How do they lock each car in its cubicle for safety. WHO CARES. NO ONE IN THEIR RIGHT MIND COULD GET IN THERE.
Talk about German efficiency! The two photos below were taken at a new parking garage in Munich. The actual space that the facility occupies is approximately only 20% of a comparable facility with the traditional design that is used primarily in the US. Not only is the German structure less expensive to build, but vehicles are also "retrieved" in less time and without the potential of being damaged by an
attendant.

 

isn't that from autostadt?
i believe its their stock storage.
cool stuff.

 

oh snap, vdub tha house

 

i have no idea, got it from an email

 

holy crap.

 

Pretty old... but can you imagine how scary it would be to be in the car when it goes all the way up and you have to drive it forward lol.

 

Amazing.

 

not in the US....w/ all those dang HUMMERS

 

So what happens when the storage/parking is all full, and the "arm" breaks. How do you get the cars out then (there's no contingency/redundancy in this design).

 

It's not a parking lot. It's actually a VW warehouse or something. But apparently they do have parking facilities similar to that in Deutschland.

http://www.snopes.com/photos/automobiles/parkade.asp