THE JUMP HOUSE: German Automated Carpark

Why is the Dubai carpark a robot and not this one? I would say that the Dubai carpark interacts directly with the user's commands and processes its own data to complete those commands. The Wolfsburg carpark is an automated facility, but it functions more like a vending machine, and only under the control of the operator (not the user).

When we first saw these two photos of the Volkswagen’s storage facility in Wolfsburg, Germany, we thought this was an artist’s rendition for some sort of science fiction movie. It’s not. This is an actual 20-story car tower that takes up just 20% of the space of a conventional parking garage handling the same number of vehicles. Volkswagen uses the facility in a showy delivery process for its new-car customers.

Not only does it save space, but the storage facility’s automated elevator system is able to retrieve cars much quicker than a potentially-careless human parking lot attendant.