Robb

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This is pretty amazing! Can you imagine how all this operates?

video:
YouTube - The lift in Autostadt from the top of the glass tower

YouTube - vw autostadt , wolfsburg , delivery centre tower

What you see there is the Volkswagen factory in germany
"The car towers work like giant vending machines: As a new car arrives from the factory, it’s transported by robot to an empty storage slot in one of the towers; when a customer shows up to collect the car, the same robotic picking system fetches the vehicle, brings it down to ground level, and transfers it to the KundenCenter in the next building. Each tower holds up to 400 cars on 20 levels and can process a car every 45 seconds during peak times."

Talk about German efficiency! The actual space that the facility occupies is approximately only 20% of a comparable facility with the traditional design that is used primarily 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.

Hugehumongo

thats ingenious! wonder when it'll catch on in North America...

Adair

I love the fact that it's so organized.
Reminiscent of the storage solutions at IKEA...except on a slightly grander scale.

MPR

Would make a good parking garage system... except when it breaks down...lol.

Very cool! Nice post!

MyVtecGoesBWAH

cool ****. i would like to oprate that,its just a giant reach that doesnt move truck pretty much..

shlammed

reminds me of these condos downtown Chicago

MPR

^Would hate to accidentally back over the edge...

miss_jess

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thats awesome

shlammed

you can't see it in the pic, but there is something blocking the edge of each parking spot. You'd have to be quite the retard to manage busting through it.

miss_jess

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this is in America, anything is possible.

bbarbulo

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when north america shrinks in land mass by about 80%

Ugh think of all the maintenance required and the sequencers/controllers that run it...