How’s this for an engineering feat?

by on February 14, 2010 » Add more comments.

GERMAN PARKING GARAGE in Munich, Germany


This is pretty amazing! Can you imagine how all this operates? How do they lock each car in it’s cubicle for safety?

Who cares!

No one in their right mind could get in your car. But believe me, the Germans will lock their car.

The 2 photos were taken at a new parking garage in Munich. The actual space that the facility occupies is only 20% of a comparable facility of the traditional design used 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.

Update: As Tricia pointed out in the comments, this is an urban legend.  The images are real, and in a sense it is stall a parking garage.  What is shown is a 20-story tower in Volkswagen’s Autostadt, where the cars to be purchased are stored.  When a person purchases their vehicle, the car is taken from one of these cubby holes and brought down to the new owner.  Maybe we should have saved this for April Fools Day ;)

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