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Computers might not yet be driving our cars, but they are already parking them at some commercial properties.
The U-tron automated-parking system allows drivers to exit their cars at the entrance of the multilevel parking garage and then moves the car to a slot, using elevators and horizontal rollers, reports the Houston Chronicle. When drivers return, they simply swipe a credit card, and their car is brought back down to them.
U-tron, developed by Israeli firm Unitronics, is in operation at six locations in New York, New Jersey and Los Angeles. Twenty more are on order, including one that is to open at Houston’s planned Railway Heights retail-restaurant project.
Leaving humans out of the process allows the cars to be parked much more densely, sometimes using only a third of the space that a conventional garage would need, said Yair Goldberg, executive vice president of sales and marketing at Unitronics, as reported in the newspaper.
By Edmund Mander
Director, Editor-In-Chief/SCT
