And another thing…

http://www.ecplaza.net/product/162671_1056564/tower_parking_system.html

http://www.hoax-slayer.com/self-parking-garage.shtml

These are the future!

Although the second link is defined as a Hoax, the automated car storage lifts do exist!

My neighbour already parks like that.

The approach in Toronto is much more innovative!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Do6pmYfNco0

At which point all the oil in the engine comes out.

Well done Tom Great idea.Do you still get free parking at the House of Commons?

“I’ll wait in the car while you pop to the shops….AAAARRRRGGGHHH”

Yep. I’d laugh

Whilst that nice wee model looks very nice, I’d be annoyed when my CDs etc. fell all over the place because of the car being tilted at right angles to the ground!

Where are the flying cars we were promised?

Most car alarms go off when they register movement……so parking vertically should be quite noisy.. not to mention the hiss of battery acid as it eats away metal and the bubble of paint stripped by brake fluid and the odd fire as petrol leaks from vertical tanks and explodes on hot exhausts…

Apart from that, it’s highly practical.

Only available in Scotland.

They were inspired by the way the police stored the drunks on saturday nights.

@Stewart Cowan – I’m still hoping for jet packs…

Actually, this is a really bad invention for the following reasons (yes, okay, I’m bored):

a) No space will be saved at all in most situations, because a whole car-length of ground will still be needed for whenever the driver wants his car back. In fact a normal car-parking space would require a smaller area.

b) The powerful machinery will cause adults to lose limbs and children to be flattened. When I worked in a supermarket, my big toe was crushed by failing to get out the way of a pallet of baked beans that was being lowered. (Oh, how all my workmates killed themselves laughing.) Now imagine the carnage in the car park.

c) As others have said, cars aren’t built to be stored like this and explosions are sure to be regular occurrences, but hey, there are too many cars anyway.

d) How many women do you know who could drive onto one of those things?

These machines would be a ludicrous waste of money and would create far more problems than they solve. Expect the Government to order five million of them immediately.

Do people still leave their dogs in the car?
Or their children?

@Stewart Cowan

Careful now, or Harriet Harperson will come round to cut off and boil your todger.

Anyway, we already have ‘vertical parking systems’, they’re called multi-storey car parks.

Nifty concept, but as many have noted, completely stupid.
Waaay too many designers think like this; “hmmm, that’d be cool, let’s design one” as opposed to “hmmm, that could really work, let’s design one”.
What’ll happen here is a real designer will come along, take the usable elements of it and try to create a version that *is* actually practical. If it still has some merit at that point, then maybe we’ll see something like this. But I suspect the vertical-storage may be somewhat different…

Ah! But what about Smart cars, whose height is greater than their length? (er, is that actually true?)

Couldn’t you save more space by simply driving the car really hard into the wall?

Incidentally, this post brings to mind a couple of useful tips:

Ever worried about losing your keys to the car/front door?

Banish your worries for ever!

All you do is permanently attach the key to the lock via a wire/chain/bit of string. Simples! It’s especially convenient for padlocks.

In the same vein, glue the remote control onto the telly. That way you always know where to find it.

I wonder if those commenters taking this post seriously know anything of Mr Harris.

(BTW please feel free to incorporate both of my tips into your next manifesto, even if they aren’t in it already)

As rubber coated cars, in a range of colours, are clearly the future, the leaking oil won’t get very far.

Johnny Norfolk
Friday 30 October 2009 at 9:05 pm
Only available in Scotland.
They were inspired by the way the police stored the drunks on saturday nights.

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How dare you malign Scotland/West Albania*

This same country, mentioned on the radio the other day, with the head of a dog shelter there complaining that of the hundred dogs he had, 40 of them were Staffordshire Bull Terriers given up by the numskulls who’d bought them because the dogs ‘weren’t hard enough’.

Yeah carry on voting Labour or Labour Lite (SNP), folks, because you can see where the last fifty years of it has brought you.

*that’s my job.

Is this so you can build you car parks.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/greenpolitics/planning/6475826/Listed-buildings-and-scenic-spots-face-destruction-after-planning-rule-changes.html.

Labour realy are b******s.

Why do the cars have to be tilted? If you’re going to build machinery to tilt cars like that, why not use the machinery to just raise the cars 10 feet into the air, keeping them the normal way up?

Anyway, isn’t it simpler just to to denormalise and demonise drivers, and make them feel so ashamed of driving anywhere that they ritually set fire to their own cars?

@ Sammy’s “Yeah carry on voting Labour or Labour Lite (SNP), folks, because you can see where the last fifty years of it has brought you.”
WHAT?!!!

Are you f^&*ing kidding me?
Fair enough to slag off Labour for having been at the wheel in Scotland for well over 50 years, almost 80 in some places, whilst massive poverty, social deprivation etc. have reigned supreme. I agree with you there.

BUT….the SNP are pretty far removed from Labour ideologically and in terms of popularity as well. For one thing, we’re popular! For another, the “new labour” party is at best slightly-left-but-mostly-centrist. In many ways, the Labour party under Blair (and far far far more so under Brown) have veered to the right wing. Sure, they’re not as rightwing as the Tories, and arguably the Labour party are still fairly socially liberal (until you hit security issues. CCTV anyone?), but they’re right-wing completely fiscally-speaking.
The SNP on the other hands are a left-of-centre social-democratic party; in favour of many things the Labour grass-roots would like but are diametrically opposed by Brown et al. In addition, the SNP, lest the name didnae spell it out to you, is a Nationalist party. Unlike Labour, they are also democratic.

I can say this because in spite of all the polls showing a massive majority in favour, Labour still oppose giving the people their democratic right to a referendum. They are not democratic on independence at all. I’d go so far as to say that when we get that plebiscite, and the People duly return a resounding “YES” vote, there will be those in Labour advocating ignoring it.
You could not get any further away from the SNP’s position on that matter alone. Hell, if the SNP were anything like Labour, they’d just declare independence without bothering with a referendum, much like Labour signed the Lisbon Treaty without bothering to ask the People. Very right wing that.

Have you ever been to Japan? They already have car storage parks like this. Though the cars are stored horizontal.

I like Artaud’s suggestion that machines which have ceased to serve be deposited under the sea: most cars might be parked there also in my view.