In the future automated parking garages will certainly be everywhere, as robotic cars approach they will automatically sync with the automatic parking garages and be guided in like the Shuttle Craft of the Star Ship Enterprise. Sounds too way out for you? Well it shouldn't as we already have several automatic parking structure companies out there and the person parks their car and puts their card in a card slider and presses a button and they are paid for the day and the robotic system takes the car away to its cubby hole.
Automatic Parking structures can stack the cars much more closer together without all the issues of extra wasted space such as ramps and drive ways in a large structured parking lot. Automated Parking structures are quite popular in many parts of the world already. There are several companies in the United States that already sell them too.
There is SpaceSaver Parking Company, which sells spacesavers, comblifts, parking platforms, multi parkers, level parkers, park savers and showroom towers for auto dealerships too. Sorry about that; too many new industry buzz-words for you? Well if you are in the parking business maybe it is time to start learning the new language, because automated parking garages are the wave of the future in parking.
Why you ask? Well because the prices are coming down on these systems and the reliability is now going way up. They are economical, efficient, low maintenance, space saving and they solve the needs of too many cars in where land space is a very valuable commodity.
As property increases in scarsity and price, more and more automated, space-saving parking structures will proliferate, its only a matter of time. Lance