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Posted by agotterer 13 hours ago

London Gatwick has launched a robotic airport parking service(aerospaceglobalnews.com)
268 points | 233 commentspage 5
pj_mukh 11 hours ago|
Great, now let's (gradually) get rid of all surface parking lots and build hyper-optimized multi-floor parking setups not made for human driving. A sort of Ocado Grocery Warehouse [1] for cars.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssZ_8cqfBlE

As always, yes I know this already exists in Japan.

amiga386 8 hours ago|
Not the best example...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQQlREtqAM8

As far as I understand, first one Ocado robot went on fire, it doesn't have a sensor for fire so it kept going. Neither do its neighbours, who pass right by it and catch fire themselves. And so it keeps going until everything is on fire.

mfldkjgkfl 9 hours ago||
In what way is this better than an uber?
tene80i 7 hours ago|
Price, depending on how far away you live.
Onavo 9 hours ago||
Can it handle EVs safely? The bottom battery often causes...issues if you don't have a lifting puck to spread the weight.
Finnucane 10 hours ago||
So robots: yes. Water: no.
blondie9x 10 hours ago||
This is so unnecessary. Just make better transit options and make it more affordable for people to go to airport.
ukrulez 9 hours ago|
Why even go to the airport? Take the train to where you are going.
varispeed 10 hours ago||
I heard horror stories, where "secure storage area" was actually a field without any security. Not saying this is the case here, but one must be mad to give a car like that without knowing exact location it is going.

It's one of the things where I can't see what is there robot's role here.

djhworld 10 hours ago|
I doubt the robots have sufficient enough traction/mobility to navigate on any surface that isn't reasonably smooth like tarmac. Also I'd wager the car park the robots go to isn't that far away from the drop off location, most likely on the same land owned by the airport.
varispeed 7 hours ago||
My guess is they take the car away from the drop off point to employee pick up point and human drives them away to the "secure location".
txomon 11 hours ago||
Am I the only one bothered because the license plate masking they have used is so bad that you can see the License plate whole several times?
nttylock 10 hours ago|
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