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Hoboken,
NJ - At the Garden Street Garage, there are
no attendants, and parking
takes less than a minute. Drivers don’t
even enter the building. They simply pull into
a docking bay, turn off their engines, swipe
their credit cards, and walk away. The 324-car
garage does the rest. Vehicles are lifted by
an automated elevator and hoisted onto steel
pallets by an electro-mechanically driven carrier
system. Custom software works in conjunction
with Cimplicity, the automation program used
by many General Motors manufacturing plants
and NASA facilities. Because the garage does
not have to provide circular ramps or space
for drivers to maneuver, it fits three times
as many vehicles as conventional garages. An
added plus: The absence of ramps saves thousands
of gallons of gas every year.
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